Shimon Shetreet
| Shimon Shetreet | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 March 1946 |
| Place of birth | Erfoud, Morocco |
| Year of aliyah | 1949 |
| Knessets | 12, 13 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1988–1991 | Alignment |
| 1991–1996 | Labor Party |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1992–1993 | Minister of Science & Technology |
| 1992–1995 | Minister of Economics & Planning |
| 1995–1996 | Minister of Religious Affairs |
Professor Shimon Shetreet (Hebrew: שמעון שטרית, born 1 March 1946) is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios between 1992 and 1996. He is currently the Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Born in Erfoud in Morocco, Shetreet's family made aliyah to Israel in 1949 when he was three years old. He attended a religious elementary school, before studying at a yeshiva, winning the International Bible Contest at the age of 13. He went on to study law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an LLB in 1968 and LLM in 1970. He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he gained an LLD in 1973.
Shetreet began working as a clerk to Supreme Court judge Alfred Witkon in 1967, and was admitted to the Bar Association in 1969. In 1980 he was a member of the Commission on the Israeli Court System, and was involved in founding the Public Law Association in 1987.
In 1988 Shetreet was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. After being re-elected in 1992 (by which time the Alignment had merged into the Labor Party), Shetreet was appointed Minister of Economics and Planning and Minister of Science and Technology in Yitzhak Rabin's government. He lost the latter portfolio in June 1993 when it was given to Shulamit Aloni, but also became Minister of Religious Affairs in February 1992. When Shimon Peres formed a new government following the assassination of Rabin, he remained Minister of Religious Affairs, but lost the Economics and Planning portfolio.
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