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Avraham Burg was born on 19 January, 1955 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli politician. Discover Avraham Burg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 19 January 1955
Birthday 19 January
Birthplace Jerusalem
Nationality Israel

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1929

His mother was Rivka (née Slonim) who was born in Hebron and a survivor of the 1929 Hebron massacre.

In the Israel Defense Forces, Burg served as a platoon commander with the rank of lieutenant in the paratroopers brigade.

He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a degree in the social sciences.

Burg married Yael, and they had six children.

He lives in Nataf, a rural community, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Burg was an activist in left-wing organizations and the Peace Now movement.

1948

He was the first Speaker of the Knesset to have been born in Israel after its declaration of independence in 1948.

1955

Avraham "Avrum" Burg (אברהם בורג; born 19 January 1955) is an Israeli author, politician and businessman.

He was a member of the Knesset, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Speaker of the Knesset, and Interim President of Israel.

1983

He was injured in the grenade attack on a Peace Now demonstration in Jerusalem in February 1983 which killed Emil Grunzweig.

1985

In 1985, he served as advisor on Diaspora affairs to Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

1988

In 1988, he was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Alignment.

1992

In 1992, when the Alignment became the Labor Party, he was reelected to Knesset.

He served as chairman of the Education Committee.

1995

In 1995, he was appointed Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, and resigned from the Knesset.

As head of the Jewish Agency, he worked to recover Jewish property lost during The Holocaust and in the transfer of approximately half a million predominantly Jewish citizens from the Commonwealth of Independent States (the former Soviet Union) to Israel.

After his term as chairman of the Jewish Agency, Burg continued to use a car and driver provided by the agency for 10 years.

When it was cut he sued to continue to receive these benefits, but lost the court case, with the judge saying, "Burg didn't explain the fact that he also uses the car for his own personal business."

1999

In 1999, Burg returned to domestic politics, and was elected to the Knesset on Ehud Barak's One Israel list (an alliance of Labor, Meimad and Gesher).

2000

From the 2000s onwards he has expressed views described as post-Zionist, a label he self-identified with in 2011.

He is in favor of Israel negotiating with Hamas, and has called to abandon Herzelian Zionism (calling it a scaffolding that should be removed) in favor of a form of Cultural Zionism, also citing the civic nationalism of France as an example to follow.

He was born and raised in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood.

His father was Yosef Burg, a German-born Israeli politician and longtime government minister for the National Religious Party.

In his capacity as speaker of the Knesset he served as interim President of Israel for 20 days, from 12 July until 1 August 2000 when the presidency was vacant following Ezer Weizman's resignation.

2001

Following Barak's defeat in the 2001 election for Prime Minister and his subsequent resignation, Burg ran for the Labor Party leadership, and won amid accusations of voter fraud.

In a revote he lost to Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

Burg called for cancellation of this second vote, a move supported by Labor Party chairman Ra'anan Cohen.

2003

Although Prime Minister Barak backed another candidate, Burg was elected Speaker of the Knesset, a position he held until early 2003.

Nevertheless, Burg retained his seat in the Knesset in the 2003 elections.

Also in 2003, Burg published an article in Yedioth Ahronoth in which he declared, "Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism."

2004

In 2004, Burg resigned from the Knesset and public life.

He became a businessman.

2007

In 2007, a Burg-led consortium won the rights to purchase Ashot Ashkelon Industries, but the sale was cancelled by the Israeli government.

Burg's attorney said that if it was cancelled since the government wanted to sell it together with Israel Military Industries (IMI), "we may bid for IMI."

There had also been a review by the State Comptroller and the Israeli Police "into suspicions that [Burg] was a straw-man for Ian Nigel Davis and Aviv Algor. (Davis and Algor have been indicted in a securities case, on charges of fraudulently obtaining the approval of Middle East Tube Ltd. shareholders for a 250,000-shekel monthly management fee.) The prosecutor closed the file against Burg for lack of evidence."

Burg has lectured at international events and served on the board of directors of Vita Pri Hagalil.

Burg was embroiled in a controversy over an "alleged missing 270,000,000 New Israel Shekels," money lent to Vita Pri Hagalil.

Burg referred to the banks involved as being "hypocritical" since according to Burg, the banks had received substantial interest payments on the loan.

However, a senior banker questioned this, saying "had the owners demonstrated serious intent to use the capital injection to rescue the company, there's no question that we'd contribute to the rescue effort. The owners' abandonment of responsibility is what forced us to ask for the appointment of a receiver. We had no choice."

2015

A member of the Labor Party when he was a member of the Knesset, Burg announced in January 2015 that he had joined Hadash.