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Israeli politician
Danny Atar
Faction represented in the Knesset
2015–2016Zionist Union
Personal details
Born (1958-01-05) 5 January 1958 (age 66)
Afula, Israel

Daniel "Danny" Atar (Hebrew: דניאל "דני" עטר, born 5 January 1958) is an Israeli politician.

Biography

Daniel Atar was born in Afula, Israel, to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Morocco in 1956. During his IDF national service he served in the Golani Brigade. He fought in the 1982 Lebanon War. He continued to serve in the army reserves, becoming a lieutenant colonel.

Gilboa Regional Council

In 1994 he was elected leader of Gilboa Regional Council. While serving in that role he ran for the interim leadership of the Labor Party in 2003, winning 21.9% of the vote. In 2009, Atar was detained and investigated along with five other municipal workers for fraudulently receiving goods and mismanagement of campaign funds.

Knesset

He was placed 16th on the Labor Party list for the 2013 Knesset elections, a spot reserved for the agricultural sector, but did not become a Knesset member as the party won only 15 seats. Although he was next in line to replace Binyamin Ben-Eliezer following his retirement from politics, he gave up his seat for Raleb Majadele.

Prior to the 2015 elections he was placed 15th on the Zionist Union list, an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah. He was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 24 seats.

Jewish National Fund

In October 2015, Atar was elected head of the Jewish National Fund. He was replaced in the Knesset by Yael Cohen Paran, the head of the Green Movement. In 2020, Atar was accused of being party to the illegal spending of 100 million shekels to purchase lands in the West Bank, without the permission of the Jewish National Fund Board.

Personal life

Atar is married with three children and lives in Gan Ner. After years of enforcement efforts, he was fined in 2020 and forced to return public lands adjacent to his Gan Ner home, that he had commandeered and used to construct an illegal private swimming pool.

References

  1. ^ "Gilboa Council head suspected of fraud, detained by police". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  2. "פרס נבחר ליו"ר הזמני: "נחזיר את המפלגה לגדולתה"". ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  3. The new Labor list: A mixed blessing for Yacimovich Haaretz, 30 November 2012
  4. Raleb Majadla Replaces Ben Eliezer in Knesset Israel National News, 14 December 2014
  5. Zionist Union list Central Elections Committee
  6. Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
  7. Zionist Union MK Danny Atar elected head of KKL-JNF; to be replaced in Knesset by Yael Cohen Paran Ynetnews, 19 October 2015
  8. "Israeli right's new bank – the Jewish National Fund | Opinion".
  9. "N12 - בית המשפט: יו"ר קק"ל חרג משטחו וישלם פיצוי". 28 June 2020.

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