Eyal Gabbai
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| Born | 1967 Jerusalem |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Former Director-General of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office |
Eyal Gabbai (born in 1967 in Jerusalem) was the Director-General of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office from 2009 to 2011. He served as director of the Government Companies Authority and the Israeli branch director of the Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown.
Gabbai holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics (magna cum laude) and Law (cum laude), and an MBA in Finance (cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After completing his undergraduate degree he joined the Israel Democracy Institute and served as an assistant on behalf of the Knesset Economics Committee. Gabbai did his internship at the law firm S. Horowitz and with of Justice Dalia Dorner of the Israel Supreme Court.
He is married to Einat, a clinical psychologist, and is a father to five. His first wife died when their daughter was three-years-old. They live in Modi'in.
Gabbai's public service career began in 1996, after completing his graduate degree in Business Administration, when he was appointed as the advisor to Justice Minister Tzachi Hanegbi. Gabbai served in that capacity until 1998, when he was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to head the economics division of the Prime Minister's Office. After Netanyahu's loss in the May 1999 elections, Gabbi entered the private market, serving as Vice President of Business Development and International Relations at Bezeq International under CEO Uri Yogev from 1999-2001.
In 2002 he returned to public service and was appointed Director of the Government Companies Authority and served there until 2007, under Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu. This period was characterized by vigorous privatization of state companies, including El Al, Bezeq, Israel's Oil Refineries and Zim, selling shares in a total value of 14b NIS in an unprecedented privatization spree. Other changes he instituted included the splitoff of Israel Railways from the Ports and Railways Authority and its transformation into a government company, as well as making the Postal Authority and the Government Department of Public Works an auxiliary unit of government companies.
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