Eliezer Mizrahi is an Israel

Israel

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i former politician who served as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

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 between 1988 and 1992, and as Deputy Minister of Health

Health Minister of Israel

The Ministry of Health is a ministry in the Israeli government. The current Minister of Health is Binyamin Netanyahu of Likud.There is occasionally a Deputy Minister of Health...

 from 1990 until 1992.

Biography

Born in Rehovot

Rehovot

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 during the Mandate era, Mizrahi's father Ya'akov

Ya'akov Mizrahi

Ya'akov Mizrahi   was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael between 1972 and 1974.-Biography:Mizrachi was born in Rehovot in 1919 to a family who had made aliyah from Yemen...

 was an Agudat Yisrael politician. He was educated the Chabad

Chabad

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-run Tomchei Temimim

Tomchei Temimim

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 yeshiva

Yeshiva

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. He worked as a diamond polisher.

In 1988

Israeli legislative election, 1988

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 he was elected to the Knesset on the Agudat Yisrael list. He was involved in the dirty trick

The dirty trick (Israel)

The dirty trick refers to a political scandal that erupted in Israel in 1990. It consisted of an attempt by Shimon Peres to form a narrow government made up of the left-wing factions and the ultra-orthodox parties...

 in 1990, which resulted in him breaking away from the party to establish a new faction, Geulat Yisrael. He joined Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir

' is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.-Biography:Icchak Jeziernicky was born in Ruzhany , Russian Empire . He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement...

's government

Twenty-fourth government of Israel

The twenty-fourth government of Israel was formed by Yitzhak Shamir of Likud on 11 June 1990. This followed the failure of Alignment leader Shimon Peres to form a government, after the Alignment had pulled out of the previous national unity coalition, in an incident which became known as the dirty...

, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Health on 25 June. He lost his seat in the 1992 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the electoral threshold and thus effectively...

 after the party failed to cross the electoral threshold. He later joined Likud

Likud

Likud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...

 and was placed thirty-fifth on the party's list for the 1996 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1996

Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 29 May 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%.The 1996 elections included two new changes, both designed to increase the stability of the Knesset. First, the Prime Minister was to be elected on a separate ballot from the remaining members of the...

, but failed to win a seat.

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