Yuli Tamir
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| Date of birth | 26 February 1954 |
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Knessets | 16, 17, 18 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 2003–2010 | Labor Party |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1999–2001 | Minister of Immigrant Absorption |
| 2006–2009 | Minister of Education |
| 2006–2007 | Minister of Science, Culture & Sport |
Yael "Yuli" Tamir (Hebrew: יולי תמיר, born 26 February 1954) is an Israeli academic and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2003 and 2010, and as Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Education. Since 2010 she has been President of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.
Born in Tel Aviv (some sources state Ramat Gan), Tamir served in Aman's 848 Unit during her national service, and during the Yom Kippur War, she served as an officer in an outpost on the Sinai. She received a BA in Biology and an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received a PhD in Political Philosophy from Oxford. Between 1989 and 1999, she was a philosophy lecturer in Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, Princeton and Harvard universities.
Tamir was one of the founders of Peace Now in 1978, and between 1980 and 1985, she was an activist for Ratz. From 1998 until 1999, she was chairwoman of the Israeli Association for Civil Rights. From 1995, she became active in the Labour Party. Although Tamir failed to win election to the Knesset in the 1999 election, she was appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption by Ehud Barak. She was elected to the Knesset in the following 2003 election, and served on the finance, constitutional, law and order, public input, and culture and sport committees. She also served on the investigatory parliamentary committee into government corruption.
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