Michael Nudelman

Michael Nudelman (Hebrew: מיכאל נודלמן, 30 June 1938 – 14 February 2019) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Aliyah, the National Union, Yisrael Beiteinu and Kadima between 1996 and 2009.

Michael Nudelman
Date of birth(1938-06-30)30 June 1938
Place of birthKiev, Soviet Union
Year of aliyah1991
Date of death14 February 2019(2019-02-14) (aged 80)
Place of deathKiryat Shmona, Israel
Knessets14, 15, 16, 17
Faction represented in Knesset
1996–1999Yisrael BaAliyah
1999Aliyah
2003–2006Yisrael Beiteinu
2003–2006National Union
2006Independent
2006–2009Kadima

Political career

Born in Kiev in the Soviet Union (today Ukraine), Nudelman made aliyah to Israel in 1991.

He was elected to the 14th Knesset as a representative of Yisrael BaAliyah. He resigned from the party along with Yuri Stern and formed the Aliyah party, which later merged with Yisrael Beiteinu, and as a member of this party he was elected to the 15th Knesset and to the 16th Knesset (as part of the National Union list, which Yisrael Beiteinu joined in that election).

In the 14th Knesset he served as chairman of the Science and Technology Committee, and he served as Deputy Chairman of the 16th Knesset.

In 2005 Nudelman supported the disengagement plan. Towards the end of the 16th Knesset he resigned from the party and announced that he was joining Kadima, seeing out the rest of the Knesset term as an independent MK. He was returned to the Knesset on Kadima's list in the 2006 elections.

Prior to the 2009 elections he left Kadima and reformed Aliyah, renaming it Yisrael HaMithadeshet. However, the party failed to cross the electoral threshold, and he lost his seat.

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