Alex Goldfarb (Israeli politician)

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Alex Goldfarb (Romania, June 1, 1947; Hebrew: אלכס גולדפרב‎) is an Israeli politician and electrician.

Goldfarb immigrated to Israel from his native Romania in 1963. He worked as an electrician, amongst others in the Israel Electricity Company, where he was also active in the union.

In 1992 he was elected to the thirteenth Knesset, on the Tzomet list, after the party had won eight seats. As Israel Labor Party was the largest party in these elections it formed the government and the right-wing Tzomet party remained in the opposition. Goldfarb served as an opposition MK. He was a member of the Knesset's Economics Committee and later a member of the State Control Committee.

On February 7, 1994 Tzomet MKs Goldfarb, Gonen Segev and Esther Salmovitz split from Tzomet to form the Yiud faction. On January 2 1995, Goldfarb became Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction, after Yiud joined Yitzhak Rabin's government. In November 1995 he split from Yiud to form the Atid faction with Salmovitz (who later ran in the primaries for the Likud). Goldfarb held the same deputy minister post again from Movember 22, 1995 to June 18, 1996 in the government that Shimon Peres formed shortly after Yitzhak Rabin was murdered.