Eliezer Sandberg (; born 21 February 1962) is an Israeli former politician who served as a government minister between 2003 and 2004. He was world chairman of Keren Hayesod in 2010-2018.

Biography

Born in

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, Sandberg studied law at

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, gaining an LLB. He is married with three children.

Political career

Sandberg joined the

Tzomet Tzomet (, lit., ''Crossroads'') is a small, right-wing political party in Israel. Raful period (1983-1999) The party was founded by General Rafael Eitan in 1983, after his retirement from the position of chief-of-staff in 1982. He headed it throu ...

party and became a member of its secretariat in 1988. He also served as the party's legal adviser and chairman of its Haifa branch. In 1992 he was elected to the

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on Tzomet's list. He was re-elected in 1996 and in November 1998 was appointed Deputy

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. On 23 February 1999 he left Tzomet to become a founding member of the Israel in the Centre party (later renamed the Centre Party), but on 22 March he left the new party to establish his own faction,

HaTzeirim HaTzeirim () was a short-lived political faction in Israel in the late 1990s. Background The faction was formed on 23 March 1999, during the 1996 Israeli legislative election, 14th Knesset, when Centre Party (Israel), Center Party MK Eliezer Sand ...

. On 29 March, HaTzeirim merged with

Shinui Shinui () was a Zionist, secular, and anti-clerical free market Liberalism worldwide, liberal party and political movement in Israel. The party twice became the third-largest in the Knesset, but both occasions were followed by a split and collaps ...

.Mergers and Splits Among Parliamentary Groups
Knesset websiteSandberg was re-elected on the Shinui list in 1999 and 2003. In February 2003, he was appointed Minister of Science and Technology, a role he held until July 2004 when he became Minister of National Infrastructure. He left the cabinet on 4 December 2004 when Shinui withdrew from the coalition government. In January 2006 Sandberg was amongst the Shinui MKs who left the party to establish the Hetz. On 5 February he and Hemi Doron established the National Home. Prior to the 2006 elections the two joined

Likud Likud (, ), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement (), is a major Right-wing politics, right-wing, political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an alliance with several right-wing par ...

, but were not included on its list, and thus lost their seats in the election.

Controversy

In 2017, Sandberg was named as a suspect in a corruption-tainted multi-million-dollar deal with German shipyard.Ex-minister Eliezer Sandberg named as suspect in widening submarines probe
Times of Israel, 4 September 2017

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