Aharon Abuhatzira
| Aharon Abuhatzira | |
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| Date of birth | 28 October 1938 |
| Place of birth | Morocco |
| Year of aliyah | 1949 |
| Knessets | 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1977–1981 | National Religious Party |
| 1981–1988 | Tami |
| 1988–1992 | Likud |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1977–1981 | Minister of Religions |
| 1981–1982 | Minister of Immigrant Absorption |
| 1981–1982 | Minister of Labor and Social Welfare |
Aharon Abuhatzira (Hebrew: אהרן אבוחצירא, born 28 October 1938) is a former Israeli politician. After serving as mayor of Ramla, he held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He resigned from the cabinet after being convicted of larceny, breach of trust and fraud.
Aharon Abuhatzira was born in the Tafilalt region of Morocco and made aliyah to Israel in 1949. He studied the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh, graduated from a Teachers' Seminary in Jerusalem and earned a BA from Bar-Ilan University. Before entering politics, he worked as a high school teacher.
Abuhatzira was elected to Ramla city council in 1969 and became mayor of the city in 1972. He was elected to the Knesset in 1977 on the National Religious Party's list, and was appointed Minister of Religions in Menachem Begin's government. Abuhatzira left the NRP and formed his own party, Tami. The party won three seats in the 1981 elections and was included in Begin's new government. Abuhatzira was appointed both Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Labor and Social Welfare. Abuhatzira was re-elected in the 1984 elections, but his party won only one seat. Towards the end of the Knesset term he merged the party into Likud, and in the 1988 elections, won a seat on the Likud list, but failed to retain it in the 1992 vote.
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