Silvan Shalom
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| Date of birth | 4 August 1958 |
| Place of birth | Gabès, Tunisia |
| Year of aliyah | 1959 |
| Knessets | 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1992–2015 | Likud |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1998–1999 | Minister of Science & Technology |
| 2001–2003 | Minister of Finance |
| 2001–2006 | Deputy Prime Minister |
| 2003–2006 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 2009–2013 | Vice Prime Minister |
| 2009–2015 | Minister for Regional Development |
| 2009–2015 | Minister for the Development of the Negev & Galilee |
| 2013–2015 | Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy & Water Resources |
| 2015 | Vice Prime Minister |
| 2015 | Minister of the Interior |
Zion Silvan Shalom (Hebrew: ציון סילבן שלום, born 4 August 1958) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including being Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He resigned on 24 December 2015 following allegations of sexual harassment leveled by 11 women.
Shalom was born in Gabès, Tunisia on August 4, 1958 to a family that traced its roots to the Sephardic Beit Shalom dynasty. His family moved to Israel in 1959, settling in the city of Beersheba in the Negev. On November 3, 1964, while Shalom was six years old, his father, Shimon Shalom, a bank manager and a member of the Betar movement, was killed during the course of a bungled bank robbery. The murder was notoriously known as the first committed in a bank robbery in the history of the young State of Israel. At the age of 18, Shalom was inducted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and rose to the rank of Sergeant.
After completing his service in the IDF, Shalom attended Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in economics and earned his certification as a Certified Public Accountant. During that time, Shalom was elected as the chairman of the university's students' union and later as the vice chairman of the national students union. He later attended Tel Aviv University, from which he received a law degree as well as a master's in public policy.
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