Avraham Burg

Quick Facts

Full Name	Avraham Burg
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1955(1955-01-19)
Age	69
Birthplace	Jerusalem
Country	Israel
Birth City	Jerusalem District
Horoscope	Capricorn

Avraham Burg Biography

Avraham Burg is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 19, 1955 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel. He was was raised within Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighborhood. The father of his was the Dr. Yosef Burg, a German-born Israeli politician and longtime minister of the National Religious Party. The mother of his son was Rivka (nee Slonim Dwek) who was born in Hebron and was a survivor from the 1929 Hebron massacre in 1929.

He was appointed Chairman of the World Zionist Organization in 1995. became the chairman of both the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization in 1995, after which he left the Knesset. As the head of the Jewish Agency, he worked to retrieve Jewish properties that were destroyed during the Holocaust and also in the transfer of around half a million mostly Jewish citizens of in the Commonwealth of Independent States (the former Soviet Union) to Israel. Following his time as the chairman of the Jewish Agency, Burg continued to drive the car and driver offered from the Agency for a total of 10 years. When the benefits were cut, the chairman filed a lawsuit receiving these benefits, however, he lost the court case in which the judge stated, “Burg didn’t explain the fact that he also uses the car for his own personal business.”

Following Barak’s defeat in the 2001 election for Prime Minister and his subsequent resignation, Burg ran for the Labor Party leadership, and won amid accusations of voter fraud. In a revote he lost to Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. Burg called for cancellation of this second vote, a move supported by Labor Party chairman Ra’anan Cohen. Nevertheless, Burg retained his seat in the Knesset in the 2003 elections.

Also in 2003, Burg published an article in Yedioth Ahronoth in which he declared, “Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism.”

In 1992, following the Alignment joined together with that of the Labor Party, he was elected to Knesset. He was the Chairman of the Education Committee.

Avraham Burg Net Worth

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

Avraham “Avrum” Burg (Hebrew: Abrhm bvrg , born 19 January 1955) is an Israeli writer, politician, and businessman. He was an elected part of the Knesset and chairperson of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Speaker of the Knesset and the Interim President of Israel. Burg was the very first Speaker in the Knesset to be born on Israeli territory following the declaration of the declaration of independence in 1948. As a participant in the Labor Party when he was an elected participant in the Knesset, Burg announced in January 2015 that he joined Hadash.

Burg was an active member of left-wing groups and was a member of the Peace Now movement. He was wounded in the grenade assault on the Peace Now demonstration in Jerusalem in February 1983, which resulted in the death of Emil Grunzweig. The year 1985 was the time he worked as an advisor on Diaspora issues to the Prime Secretary Shimon Peres. In 1988 the year he got elected into the Knesset as an official part of the Alignment.

In 1999, Burg returned to domestic politics, and was elected to the Knesset on Ehud Barak’s One Israel list (an alliance of Labor, Meimad and Gesher). Although Prime Minister Barak backed another candidate, Burg was elected Speaker of the Knesset, a position he held until early 2003. In his capacity as speaker of the Knesset he served as interim President of Israel for 20 days, from 12 July until 1 August 2000 when the presidency was vacant following Ezer Weizman’s resignation.

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In 2011, Burg wrote an op-ed in Haaretz claiming that there was a reasonable chance of a one-state solution coming to pass. On the possibility of one state, he wrote, “It is likely to be a country with nationalist, racist and religious discrimination and one that is patently not democratic, like the one that exists today. But it could be something entirely different. An entity with a common basis for at least three players: an ideological right that is prepared to examine its feasibility; a left, part of which is starting to free itself of the illusions of “Jewish and democratic”; and a not inconsiderable part of the Palestinian intelligentsia. The conceptual framework will be agreed upon – a democratic state that belongs to all of its citizens. The practicable substance could be fertile ground for arguments and creativity. This is an opportunity worth taking, despite our grand experience of missing every opportunity and accusing everyone else except ourselves.”

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Avraham Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Israel. Avraham Burg celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.

In 2012, Burg endorsed a boycott of Israeli settlement products and said that he personally boycotts all products produced in the settlements and does not cross the Green Line. He also called Israel “the last colonial occupier in the Western world.”