Dan Meridor
| Dan Meridor | |
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| Date of birth | 23 April 1947 |
| Place of birth | Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Knessets | 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1984–1999 | Likud |
| 1999–2003 | Centre Party |
| 2009–2013 | Likud |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1988–1992 | Minister of Justice |
| 1996–1997 | Minister of Finance |
| 2001–2003 | Minister without Portfolio |
| 2009–2013 | Deputy Prime Minister |
| 2009–2013 | Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy |
Dan Meridor (Hebrew: דן מרידור, born 23 April 1947) is an Israeli politician and minister. A longtime member of the Likud party, in the late 1990s he became one of the founders of the Centre Party. He rejoined Likud in the early 2000s, and returned to the Knesset following the 2009 elections. Meridor previously served in government as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy in the Israeli Cabinet. In 2014, Meridor succeeded Avi Primor as president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, an institute of international affairs which operates under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress.
Born in Jerusalem towards the end of the Mandate era, Meridor is the son of Eliyahu Meridor, a longtime political associate of Menachem Begin in the Irgun and Herut (which he represented in the Knesset), and Ra'anana Meridor, an associate professor of Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He served in the armored corps and then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an LL.B. He then worked as an attorney at the Tel Aviv law firm of Haim Zadok & Co..
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