Shimon Ben-Shlomo (; born 1942) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the

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between 1984 and 1988.

Biography

Born in

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

in 1942, Ben-Shimon emigrated to Israel in 1949. He studied at

Be'er Ya'akov Be'er Ya'akov () is a city in central Israel, near Ness Ziona and Rishon Lezion. The town has an area of 8,580 dunams (~8.6 km2), and had a population of in 2019. History Be'er Ya'akov was established in 1907 on 2,000 dunams of land purch ...

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, before attending the Advanced Religious Teachers Seminary in

Beit Shemesh Beit Shemesh () is a city council (Israel), city located approximately west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District. A center of Haredi Judaism and Modern Orthodoxy, Beit Shemesh has a population of 170,683 as of 2024. The city is named afte ...

. He joined the new

Shas Shas () is a Haredi Judaism, Haredi religious List of political parties in Israel, political party in Israel. Founded in 1984 by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardic Jews, Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual leader until ...

party in the early 1980s, and was elected to the Knesset on its list in

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

. He sat on the Finance, Foreign Affairs and Defense and the Labor and Welfare Committees, and caused controversy when claiming that IDF soldiers "were killed in Lebanon because of licentiousness in the army". On 27 September 1988 he left Shas to sit as an independent.Mergers and Splits Amongst Parliamentary Groups
Knesset website In the November 1988 elections he headed a new party named Yishai, but it received only 2,947 votes, failing to cross the electoral threshold, resulting in Ben-Shlomo losing his seat.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ben-Shlomo, Shimon 1942 births Living people Israeli people of Yemeni-Jewish descent Members of the 11th Knesset (1984–1988) Shas politicians Yemeni emigrants to Israel 20th-century Israeli Jews 21st-century Israeli Jews 20th-century Yemenite Jews 21st-century Yemenite Jews