Yitzhak Vaknin

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Yitzhak Vaknin
Date of birth	(1958-05-12) 12 May 1958
Place of birth	Israel
Knessets	14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Party represented in Knesset
1996–	Shas

Yitzhak Vaknin (Hebrew: יצחק וקנין‎, born 12 May 1958) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Shas.

Biography

Between 1982 and 1987 Vaknin served as secretary of the Gornot HaGalil communal settlement. In 1988 he became chairman of the committee of Ya'ara, a position he held until 1996. Between 1988 and 1993 he also served as secretary of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council, and from 1993 until 1996 as the head of its religious council.

He was first elected to the Knesset in 1996. He retained his seat in the 1999 elections, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Communications on 5 August 1999, a role he held until 11 July 2000, when Shas resigned from the government. After Ariel Sharon formed a new government, Vaknin was appointed Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Welfare on 2 May 2001. He left the position on 20 May 2002, but returned to it on 3 June.

He retained his seat again in the 2003, 2006 and 2009 elections.

He is married with 5 children. ^[1]

References

↑ Yitzhak Vaknin Knesset website

External links

Yitzhak Vaknin on the Knesset website

Current members of the Knesset

Governing coalition (ministers in bold)

Likud Yisrael Beiteinu	Netanyahu Lieberman Sa'ar Shamir Erdan Shalom Landau Yisrael Katz Danon Landver Rivlin Ya'alon Aharonovich Elkin Hotolevy Orly Levy Levin Edelstein Kirschenbaum Haim Katz Regev Rotem Feiglin Steinitz Ilatov Hanegbi Livnat Amar Akunis Gamliel Ohayon

Yesh Atid	Lapid Piron German Meir Cohen Peri Shelah Lavie Razvozov Koll Elharar Mickey Levy Solomon Calderon Tamano-Shata Frenkel Kariv Lipman Toporovsky Hoffman

The Jewish Home	Bennett Ariel Slomiansky Ben-Dahan Shaked Orbakh Kalfa Wortzman Yogev Strook Chetboun Mualem

Hatnuah	Livni Mitzna Peretz Stern Sheetrit Tzur

Opposition parties

Labor Party	Yachimovich Herzog Cabel Merav Michaeli Ben-Eliezer Bar Bar-Lev Shaffir Braverman Margalit Shmuli Rosenthal Biran Shai Mizrahi

Shas	Yishai Deri Atias Yitzhak Cohen Nahari Amnon Cohen Margi Azulai Vaknin Ze'ev Avraham Michaeli

United Torah Judaism	Litzman Gafni Porush Maklev Moses Eichler Asher

Meretz	Gal-On Gilon Horowitz Rozin Frej Zandberg

United Arab List-Ta'al	Sarsur Tibi Ghnaim Abu Arar

Hadash	Barakeh Sweid Khenin Agbaria

Balad	Zahalka Zoabi Ghattas

Kadima	Mofaz Hasson

Persondata
Name	Vaknin, Yitzhak
Alternative names
Short description	Israeli politician
Date of birth	12 May 1958
Place of birth	Israel
Date of death
Place of death

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