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Yitzhak Mordechai
Ministerial roles
1996–1999
Minister of Defense
1999–2000
Deputy Prime Minister
1999–2000
Minister of Transport
Faction represented in the Knesset
1996–1999
Likud
1999–2001
Centre Party
Personal details
Born
(1944-11-22) 22 November 1944 (age 79) Akre, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Yitzhak "Itzik" Mordechai (Hebrew: יצחק מרדכי, born 22 November 1944) is an Israeli former general and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1996 and 2001, and as Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport. He retired from political life after being indicted for sexual assaults during his military service and later periods.
Yitzhak "Itzik" Mordechai (Hebrew: יצחק מרדכי, born 22 November 1944) is an Israeli former general and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset...
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and the first from that minority to stand for Prime Minister, and; YitzhakMordechai of the Centre Party, running on positions between those of Likud on...
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were made by Deputy Defense minister Michael Dekel, Cabinet Minister Mordechai Tzipori and government Minister Yosef Shapira among others. Describing...
hijackers would be investigated. In 1985, a senior Israeli army general YitzhakMordechai was acquitted of charges related to the deaths of the captured hijackers...
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air attack, it still hesistated to approve it. Meanwhile, General YitzhakMordechai, who had been designated to command the land incursion, pressed for...
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Prime Minister of Israel 1948–1953, 1954–1963 Mordechai Ben-Porat, former minister without portfolio Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel Shlomo Benizri...
negotiating team with Hirschfeld, before official Israeli involvement Yitzhak Rabin – Israeli Prime Minister during the Oslo peace process Uri Savir...
Kadima in the Knesset, and led Alignment and Labor. Peres first succeeded Yitzhak Rabin as acting prime minister briefly during 1977, before becoming prime...
other things, helped rescue paratrooper battalion 890, commanded by YitzhakMordechai, which was suffering heavy losses in the Battle of the Chinese Farm...
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Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition, and the Yom-Kippur War of 1973. Yitzhak Rabin called Sharon "the greatest field commander in our history". Upon...
included refusal to pay and file tax returns. Israeli defence minister Yitzhak Rabin responded: "We will teach them there is a price for refusing the...
Begin of Herut – The National Movement, Azmi Bishara of Balad, and YitzhakMordechai of the Centre Party) dropped out before election day, and Ehud Barak...
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soldiers were killed and 5 wounded. The target had been Major-General YitzhakMordechai, head of Israel's Northern Command. But he had left the convoy earlier...
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been convicted of fraud. YitzhakMordechai – Israel's Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport in the 1990s. Mordechai was convicted of harassing...
Centre Party (a new party with centrist views, led by former generals YitzhakMordechai and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak), the left-wing Meretz, Yisrael BaAliyah,...