Shimon Ben-Shlomo 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 1984 and 1988.

Biography

Born in Yemen

Yemen

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 in 1942, Ben-Shimon made aliyah

Aliyah

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 to Israel in 1949. He studied at Be'er Ya'akov yeshiva

Yeshiva

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, before attending the Advanced Religious Teachers Seminary in Beit Shemesh.

He joined the new Shas

Shas

Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...

 party in the early 1980s, and was elected to the Knesset on its list in 1984

Israeli legislative election, 1984

Elections for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July 1984. Voter turnout was 78.8%. The results saw the Alignment return to being the largest party in the Knesset, a status it had lost in 1977...

. He sat on the Finance, Foreign Affairs and Defense

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

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 and the Labor and Welfare Committees, and caused controversy when claiming that IDF

Israel Defense Forces

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 soldiers "were killed in Lebanon because of licentiousness in the army". On 27 September 1988 he left Shas to sit as an independent. In the November 1988 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1988

Elections for the twelfth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November 1988. Voter turnout was 79.7%.-Results:1 Five members of the Likud left to form the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea; after two returned, the party was renamed the New Liberal Party...

 he headed a new party named Yishai, but it won only 2,947 votes, failing to cross the electoral threshold, and Ben-Shlomo lost his seat.

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