Avraham Burg
| Avraham Burg | |
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| Date of birth | 19 January 1955 |
| Place of birth | Jerusalem |
| Knessets | 12, 13, 15, 16 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1988–1991 | Alignment |
| 1992–1995 | Labor Party |
| 1999–2001 | One Israel |
| 2001–2004 | Labor Party |
| Other roles | |
| 1999–2003 | Speaker of the Knesset |
Avraham "Avrum" Burg (Hebrew: 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. He was the first Speaker of the Knesset to have been born in Israeli territory after independence in 1948. A member of the Labor Party when he was a member of the Knesset, Burg announced in January 2015 that he had joined Hadash.
He was born and raised in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. His father was Dr. Yosef Burg, a German-born Israeli politician and longtime government minister for the National Religious Party. His mother was Rivka (née Slonim), born in Hebron and surviving 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. He was injured in the grenade attack on a Peace Now demonstration in Jerusalem in February 1983, which killed Emil Grunzweig. In 1985, he served as advisor on Diaspora affairs to Prime Minister Shimon Peres. In 1988, he was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Alignment.
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