Amir Peretz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Amir Peretz
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 9, 1952(1952-03-09)
Age	72
Birthplace	Boujad
Country	Morocco
Birth City	Chaouia-Ouardigha
Horoscope	Pisces

Amir Peretz Biography

Amir Peretz is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 9, 1952 in Boujad, Chaouia-Ouardigha, Morocco. Amir Peretz (Hebrew: `amiyr pereTS ; born 9 March, 1952) is an Israeli politician currently serving as the leader in the Labor Party, and as an official in the Knesset for the party. He currently serves as the Minister for Israel’s Economy. A Knesset member from 1988 onwards, he also been the Minister of Defence and Minister of Environmental Protection, as well as being the leader of the Histadrut trade union federation from 1995 and 2006.

In 1988, he was elected to the Knesset. In 1994, following his failure in his previous attempt to become Histadrut direction, Peretz joined forces with Haim Ramon to fight for control of the once massive Trade Union Federation. They ran on an independent slate against the favorite candidate of the Labor chief Yitzhak Rabin. They were successful and Peretz was appointed Ramon’s deputy in the Histadrut. He was then isolated from The Labor Party. He was appointed Histadrut’s chairman at the end of December in 1995 following Ramon was reinstated in the cabinet after Rabin’s assassination. While he was in the top position of the Histadrut Peretz was seen as an ardent firebrand with an easy grip in the triggering of general strikes. Sometimes, the reason to declare a general strike could be an unwise statement from the finance minister, which was the case for Ya’akov Ne’eman’s statement in 1996.

In 1999 Peretz resigned from the Labor Party to form his own party, One Nation. The party won two seats in the Knesset in the 1999 elections, and three in 2003. As Labor’s fortunes changed with the Likud Party in government, and Israel’s social programmes being dismantled by the market-oriented reforms of finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Peretz became increasingly popular with Israel’s working-class. By the start of 2004 he was being talked of as a “white knight who will rescue Labor from oblivion”. After protracted negotiations with then-Labor Party leader Shimon Peres and other party leaders, One Nation merged with Labor in the summer of 2004.

However, in his later years as head of Histadrut, Peretz was seen as becoming much more moderate, as he moved toward a potential run for national office. During the tenure of Benjamin Netanyahu as finance minister (February 2003 – August 2005), Peretz was fairly cooperative with the government in a series of structural and financial reforms that moved Israel towards a more market- oriented economy. He has remarked that “the most effective strike is the one that didn’t occur”.

In 1983, responding to the call of acquaintances, Peretz was a candidate for post of the mayor of Sderot in 1983, and ran as a candidate of the Israel Labor Party. With just 31 years of old, he was able to win a victory that ended a lengthy period of monopoly on the town’s politics by right-wing Likud party as well as The National Religious Party. This was the first of the number of councils in the local area which returned towards Labor rule in latter part of the 1980s. As the mayor, he heavily stressed education and worked hard to repair the previously conflicting relations with the kibbutzim of the region.

Amir Peretz Net Worth

Amir Peretz is one of the richest Politician from Morocco. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amir Peretz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Armand Peretz was born in Boujad, Morocco to a Sephardic Jewish family during French colonial rule. The father of his son David was the head of the Jewish community in Boujad. He was an engineer in the Civil Engineering department of the French Civil Services. The family relocated to Israel after Morocco was declared independent in 1956. They located in the town of development of Sderot in which Peretz lived until he turned 18. He attended High School in a kibbutz nearby.

Peretz was a soldier who completed his mandatory military service with the IDF Artillery wing between 1970 between 1970 and 1972. He was appointed as an officer of the Israel Defense Forces as the brigade’s ordnance officer for the brigade of paratroopers 202nd and was promoted to captain. On the 22nd of April 1974 Peretz received a serious injury in an accident that occurred at Mitla Pass. Mitla Pass. He was in the hospital recovering. After leaving the hospital the farmer purchased a property located in Nir Akiva. In a wheelchair, he started to grow plants and flowers to export. At this time, he got to know the woman he was to marry Ahlama and they got married. The couple has four kids.

After five years as mayor of Sderot, Peretz first became an MK for the Labor- dominated Alignment in 1988. In 1999 he left Labor to establish his own party, One Nation, which he led until merging it back into Labor in 2004. The following year he defeated Shimon Peres in a Labor leadership election and became Leader of the Opposition. Following the 2006 elections Labor joined the Kadima-led coalition government, with Peretz appointed Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister. His subsequent tenure as Defense Minister included the 2006 Lebanon War and approval of the Iron Dome defence system in early 2007. Midway through 2007 Peretz was defeated by Ehud Barak in another Labor leadership election and resigned from the cabinet.

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Prior to his entry into government Peretz promised that he would not enter government with Avigdor Liberman’s Israel Beytenu party, which has a platform of removing Arabs from Israel by redrawing Israels boundaries, however his party did not protest when on 23 October 2006, Liberman signed a coalition agreement with Kadima, making them a junior coalition partner, leading the Israeli newspaper Haaretz to say that “Amir Peretz has let his voters down in every possible way.”

Facts & Trivia

Amir Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Morocco. Amir Peretz celebrates birthday on March 9 of every year.

During his term as Defense Minister, the Second Lebanon war erupted following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by the Hezbollah from Israel’s northern border. Peretz and Olmert launched a campaign against the Lebanese militia of Hezbollah. For 33 days the attacks were carried out via air and land on military and civilian targets. In the last 48 hours of the war, Peretz pushed for a massive ground operation. Land troops were flown by helicopters to seize the ground between the Israeli-Lebanese border and the river Litani. In this operation, over 33 Israeli soldiers were killed, and much anger was created amongst the Israeli public. The committee that was established by the government to investigate the war, the Winograd Committee, found that the decision to launch this operation was rational and justifiable under the current circumstances. After losing the internal elections in the Labor party to Ehud Barak, Peretz quit the defence ministry in June 2007.