Meir Sheetrit
| Meir Sheetrit | |
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Sheetrit in 2009
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| Date of birth | 10 October 1948 |
| Place of birth | Ksar es Souk, Morocco |
| Year of aliyah | 1957 |
| Knessets | 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1981–2005 | Likud |
| 2005–2012 | Kadima |
| 2012–2015 | Hatnuah |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1998–1999 | Minister of Finance |
| 2001–2003 | Minister of Justice |
| 2004–2006 | Minister of Transportation |
| 2006 | Minister of Justice |
| 2006 | Minister of Education, Culture & Sport |
| 2006–2007 | Minister of Housing & Construction |
| 2007–2009 | Minister of the Interior |
Meir Sheetrit (Hebrew: מאיר שטרית, born 10 October 1948) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset in two spells for Likud between 1981 and 1988, and again from 1992 until 2005, when he joined Kadima. He remained a Knesset member for Kadima until joining Hatnuah in 2012, for whom he served until 2015. He also held several ministerial posts, including being Minister of the Interior, Minister of Housing & Construction, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice, Minister of Transportation and Minister of Education, Culture & Sport.
Sheetrit was born in Ksar es Souk (now Errachidia), Morocco. His family immigrated to Israel in 1957. He earned a BA and an MA in Public Policy from Bar-Ilan University.
Sheetrit began his political career in 1974 as mayor of the city of Yavne, a position he held until 1987.
He was first elected to the Knesset in 1981 on the Likud list. He was re-elected in 1984, but lost his seat in 1988. That year he was elected treasurer of the Jewish Agency and served in this position until 1992, when he returned to the Knesset. In 1998 he was appointed Minister of Finance, serving until the fall of Benjamin Netanyahu's first government in 1999. He returned to the cabinet in 2001 as Minister of Justice. After being re-elected in 2003, he was appointed Minister in the Ministry of Finance, where he worked closely with then Minister of Finance Netanyahu who was spearheading a sweeping privatization reform. He was appointed Minister of Transportation in 2004, and later served as Minister of Education, Culture and Sport until 2006.
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