Avigdor Yitzhaki

Avigdor Yitzhaki
Date of birth 13 September 1949 (1949-09-13) (age 62)
Place of birth Tel Aviv, Israel
Knessets 17th
Party Kadima

Avigdor Yitzhaki (Hebrew: אביגדור יצחקי‎, born 13 September 1949) is an Israeli politician. He is a former member of the Knesset for Kadima, having been the party's parliamentary group chairman and head of the coalition.

On 2 May 2007, Yitzhaki requested that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resign as soon as possible following the Winograd Commission's first report, and .[1] On 7 February 2008 he resigned from the Knesset due to "serious doubts over Ehud Olmert's ability to lead the government in the wake of the Winograd Report".[2]

References

  1. ^ Olmert's party turns on him Israel Today, 2 May 2007
  2. ^ Knesset to swear in 2nd Ethiopian MK Jerusalem Post, 8 February 2008

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