Yuli Tamir

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Professor Yuli Tamir (Hebrew: יולי תמיר) (born as Yael Tamir: February 26, 1954) is an Israeli scholar and politician and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. She is now Minister of Education, representing the Labour Party.

Between 1972-1974, she served in Aman's 848 Unit, and during the Yom Kippur War, she served as an officer in an outpost on the Sinai. Tamir received a BA in Biology and an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received a PhD in Political Philosophy from Oxford. During 1989-1999, she was a philosophy lecturer in Tel Aviv University and a research fellow in the Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, Princeton and Harvard universities.

Tamir was one of the founders of Peace Now (1978), and between 1980-1985, she was an activist for Ratz. From 1998-1999, she was chairwoman of the Israeli Association for Civil Rights. From 1995, she became active in the Labour party. Tamir was elected to the Knesset in the 1999 election and was personally appointed by Ehud Barak as Minister of Immigrant Absorption (one of two female Ministers in his government). She was elected to the Knesset in the following legislative election of 2003, and served on the finance, constitutional, law and order, public input, and culture and sport committees. She also served on the investigatory parliamentary committee into government corruption.

She was elected to the Knesset again in the legislative election of 2006, and as of May 4, 2006, is the Education Minister in Ehud Olmert's Kadima-led coalition government.

Preceded by Meir Sheetrit

Education Minister of Israel 2006–present

Succeeded by incumbent