Avigdor Lieberman
Avigdor Lieberman, Hebrew: אביגדור ליברמן , born as Evet Lvovich Liberman, Russian: Эве́т Льво́вич Ли́берман, (born July 5, 1958 in Chișinău) is an Israeli politician. He is a political leader and also founder of Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel Our Home").
Early life and education
Lieberman studied hydrology in his native country. He migrated from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to Israel in 1978. After serving in the army he studied political science and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Career
In the 1980s he was involved in Zionist activities on behalf of Soviet Jews and also a leading member of economic and trade union organizations in Jerusalem.
In the 1990s he was an important assistant to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of HaLikud.
In 1999 he entered the Knesset with Yisrael Beiteinu, a nationalist political party focused on Israeli Jews from the former Soviet Union, founded in the same year.
Lieberman participated in several cabinets, among others as deputy prime minister in the Olmert Government and the Second Netanyahu Government, and as foreign minister in the Second and Third Netanyahu Government.
From 2016 to 2018 he was defense minister in the Fourth Netanyahu Government.
Since 2021 he has been finance minister in the Bennett-Lapid Government.
Avigdor Lieberman Media
Lieberman and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
2010. gada 5. jūlijs. Saeimas priekšsēdētāja biedre Karina Pētersone tiekas ar Izraēlas Valsts ārlietu ministru Avigdoru Libermanu (Avigdor Liberman). Foto: Saeimas Kanceleja
Lieberman with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 16 July 2012
Lieberman and Ashton Carter in front of the F-35 fighter
Lieberman with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in April 2017
Nokdim as photographed from the air in early 2006.
Lieberman and Bill de Blasio
Lieberman with Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz in 2014
Lieberman with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in October 2017.
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