Zion Pinyan
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Zion Pinyan is an Israel
Israel
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i politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset
Knesset
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 for Likud
Likud
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Biography

Born in Morocco
Morocco
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, Pinyan made aliyah
Aliyah
Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...

 to Israel in 1956. He trained to be a Hebrew and Maths teacher, and worked in education, eventually becoming headteacher of Tiberias High School. He has also lectured in mathematics at Ohalo College
Ohalo College
Ohalo College , also known as the Ohalo College of Education, is an Israeli teacher training college in the Israeli settlement and town of Katzrin in the Golan Heights. The college is supported by the Israeli Ministry of Education and is recognised by the Israeli Council for Higher Education. As a...

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He served as a member of the city's local council for twenty years, of which fifteen (1989 to 1994) was spent as deputy mauor. He chaired the committee for Planning and Construction of Tiberias and it Environs and served as a director of the neighborhood restoration project in Tiberias and the Galilee, as well as chairing the Tiberias community centers.

Prior the 2006 Knesset elections he was placed twenty-fourth on the Likud list, but missed out on a seat as the party won only 12 seats. For the 2009 elections
Israeli legislative election, 2009
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 he won twenty-second place on the Likud list, and entered the Knesset as the party won 27 seats.

Pinyan currently lives in Tiberias and is married with six children.

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