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  Burg, Avraham
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NameAvraham Burg
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Born January 19, 1955 (69 years)
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InfoAvraham Burg, Speaker of the Fifteenth Knesset, was born in Jerusalem in 1955.

Following his military service as an officer in the Paratroop Division, Avraham Burg became one of the leaders of the protest movement against the war in Lebanon. (He was wounded by the hand grenade thrown at the protesters of the Peace Now movement in Jerusalem that caused the death of Emil Grunzweig.)

In 1985, he was appointed by then Prime Minister Shimon Peres to serve as his adviser on Diaspora Affairs, a position he continued in until 1988. That year Burg was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment Party List, where he was a prominent member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Finance Committee and the State Control Committee.

Burg was elected to the Knesset once again in 1992, having placed third on the Labor Party list, after the late Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. Until 1995, he served as Chairman of the Knesset Education and Culture Committee.

In February 1995, Burg was elected Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization and, on taking up this position, resigned from the Knesset. Under Burg's leadership there were significant changes in the structure and role of the National Institutions, which began to operate in several new areas, such as the restitution of Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust and the battle for religious pluralism and tolerance among the Jewish people. He stepped down from this position in 1999 to run for the Knesset on the One Israel list, and in July 1999 was elected Speaker of the Knesset.

Avraham Burg's father, Dr. Yosef Burg, was a prominent leader of the National Religious Party, who served as minister in Israeli governments from the first years of the state until the 1980's.

Burg is married to Yael, born in France, a psychologist and the principal of a Jerusalem high school. They live with their six children in Nataf, a small, mixed religious-secular community close to Jerusalem.

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Father Yosef Burg 1909-1999
Sister Ada Ben-Sasson 0000-
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  12/26/2001 Labor Chairman Re-vote Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
  09/04/2001 Labor Chairman Won 50.76% (+1.52%)
ENDORSEMENTS
ISR Labor Chairman - Run-off - Sep 21, 2011 ILP Amir Peretz
Knesset - Feb 10, 2009 M Meretz
ISR Labor Chairman - May 28, 2007 A Ehud Barak
Labor Interim Chairman - Jun 19, 2003 K Shimon Peres
Labor Chairman - Nov 19, 2002 I Haim Ramon