Weizman Shiry

Weizman Shiry (Hebrew: ויצמן שירי‎, born 5 February 1956) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party.

Weizman Shiry
Date of birth (1956-02-05) 5 February 1956
Place of birthBeersheba, Israel
Knessets15, 16
Faction represented in Knesset
1999–2001One Israel
2001–2003Labor Party
2006Labor Party

Biography

Shiry was born in Beersheba in 1956 to parents who had made aliyah from Iraq and was named after Chaim Weizmann. He served in the Hermesh unit of the Israel Defense Forces. He then turned to business and headed several industrial companies, including a real estate company and a juice company which he purchased in 2007 for NIS 5 million.[1]

He entered politics in 1984. His political activity included his membership in the internal institutions of the Labor Party, as well as being chairman of the party's Negev district.[1] He was on the party's list for the 1996 legislative elections, but failed to win a seat.

In 1999, he was first elected to the Knesset and was chairman of the Joint Committee for the Defense Budget. In August 2002, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense, under Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and maintained this position for three months, until the party's withdrawal from the coalition. He remained in the Knesset until the expiration of its term, in 2003.[1] In January 2006, he re-entered the Knesset, replacing Shimon Peres, and served until the expiration of the Knesset's term in April 2006.

In April 2009, he was appointed temporary secretary-general of the Labor Party.[2]

gollark: Do cloud providers start stuff that much faster than generic VPS ones? All the VPS providers I've used can manage initialisation in a few minutes.
gollark: But it still seems like a big price delta given that, like you said, they have ridiculous economies of scale.
gollark: I have an old tower server which costs maybe £5/month to run, which provides ~4x the CPU/RAM and ~10x the disk I'd get from a cloud provider at similar pricing, plus I could install a spare GPU when I wanted that. This is a very extreme case since I am entirely ignoring my time costs on managing it and don't have as much redundancy as them.(Edit: also terrible internet connectivity, and colocation would be expensive)
gollark: Possibly also that you can hire fewer sysadmins? But I'm not sure they're that expensive if you have a lot of developers anyway.
gollark: I think the argument for cloud is mostly that it's much faster to scale than "have a bunch of servers in your office", but it seems like you pay an insane amount for that.

References
  1. Weitz, Gidi (5 June 2009). "Who are you calling a courtier?". Haaretz. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
  2. "Labor treasurer resigns in protest", The Jerusalem Post, 23 April 2009
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