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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Haim Ramon |
| Address |
Ramat Hasharon, , Israel |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
April 10, 1950
(74 years)
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Dec 08, 2023 07:10pm |
| Tags |
Jewish - Divorced - Air Force - Union Member - Judaism - Straight -
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| Info | Haim Ramon is an Israeli politician who is currently affiliated with the Kadima party.
Born in Jaffa, Ramon served in the Israeli Air Force, rising to the rank of Captain , before studying law at Tel Aviv University. He joined the Labour Party as soon as he left the military, and was secretary of its youth wing from 1978 until 1989. He has been a member of the Knesset since the 1981 General Election. He has been a member of various committees, and chaired the finance committee from 1988 to 1992.
In 1992, Ramon was appointed Minister of Health in the government of Yitzhak Rabin. He found himself in conflict with Rabin's drift to the right on economic policies, and resigned in 1994, successfully running for the position of chairman of the Histadrut trade union federation with the support of Amir Peretz. He returned to government after Rabin's assassination, serving as Minister of Internal Affairs under Shimon Peres from 1995 to 1996, when Labour lost power.
Labour returned to power in 1999 under Ehud Barak and Ramon was given the position of Minister in the Prime Minister`s Office, over-seeing government reform and relations between the government and Knesset. He became Minister of Internal Affairs for a second time in 2000, serving until Barak's government fell in 2001. He opposed Barak's proposals to enter a coalition under Ariel Sharon, and did not participate in the coalition formed by Sharon and Barak's successor as Labour leader, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. He ran for the leadership of the Labour Party in November 2002, losing to Amram Mitzna. However, following Ariel Sharon's break from Likud, and the formation of the centrist Kadima party, Ramon broke from Labour and joined Kadima. He was the first Labour politician to join Kadima.
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