Shlomo Benizri
| Shlomo Benizri | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 February 1961 |
| Place of birth | Haifa, Israel |
| Knessets | 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1992–2008 | Shas |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1999–2000 | Minister of Health |
| 2001–2002 | Minister of Labor & Social Welfare |
| 2002–2003 | Minister of Labor & Social Welfare |
Shlomo Benizri (Hebrew: שלמה בניזרי; born 7 February 1961) is an Israeli politician and member of the Shas party. He represented Shas in the Knesset between 1992 and 2008, serving as Deputy Health Minister, Minister of Health, and Labor and Social Welfare Minister during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was later convicted for accepting bribes, breach of trust, conspiring to commit a crime and obstruction of justice, and served a prison sentence.
Born in Haifa, Benizri attended the Nesher Comprehensive High School, before being ordained as a rabbi at the ”Or Hachaim” Talmudic College in Jerusalem. He later was head of a Talmudic college and worked as a lecturer on Judaism.
He was first elected to the Knesset in 1992 on Shas' list, and served as the party's parliamentary group chairman during his first term. He was re-elected in 1996, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Health in Binyamin Netanyahu's government. He was re-elected again in 1999 after being placed fifth on the Shas list, and was appointed Minister of Health in Ehud Barak's government, serving in the cabinet until Shas left the government on 11 July 2000.
He returned to the cabinet after Ariel Sharon formed a new government in 2001 as Labor and Social Welfare Minister, serving until the 2003 elections (aside from a period of two weeks in May–June 2002 when Shas withdrew from the coalition).
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