Shlomo Dayan
Shlomo Dayan | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1988–1992 | Shas |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 November 1952 Tétouan, Morocco |
Shlomo Dayan (Hebrew: שלמה דיין, born 6 November 1952) is an Israeli rabbi and former politician.
Biography[]
Born in Tétouan, Morocco in 1952, Dayan made aliyah to Israel in 1962. He studied at the Sha'arit Yosef yeshiva in Be'er Ya'akov and was certified as a rabbi.
He joined Shas in the 1980s, and served as a member of Jerusalem city council and deputy chairman of the city's Religious Council between 1983 and 1988.[1] From 1985 until 1987 he chaired the party's Organisation Committee, and in 1988 was elected to the Knesset on the party's list. He was appointed a Deputy Speaker and sat on several committees until losing his seat in the 1992 elections.
In 2008 Dayan was convicted of fraud and forgery and sentenced to 4 months of community service.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Shlomo Dayan: Public Activities Knesset website
External links[]
- Shlomo Dayan on the Knesset website
Categories:
- 1952 births
- Living people
- Deputy Speakers of the Knesset
- Israeli Orthodox rabbis
- Israeli politicians convicted of fraud
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Members of the 12th Knesset (1988–1992)
- Moroccan emigrants to Israel
- 20th-century Moroccan Jews
- People from Tétouan
- Rabbinic members of the Knesset
- Shas politicians