Avraham Burg
My blogs
| Industry | Business Services |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Business and Politics |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Introduction | Avraham Burg has been a long time member of the Israeli peace camp. His father was a long-serving government minister, from the time of David Ben-Gurion's government. He has classic top-drawer Israeli profile. He served as a paratroop officer and graduated from Hebrew University. He started the movement against the first Lebanon war and was injured in the grenade attack by a right-wing fanatic on a Peace Now protest in 1983 which killed his good friend Emil Grunzweig. Shortly afterwards, He was quickly swept into mainstream public life, becoming first an adviser to the then Prime minister Shimon Peres, then a Knesset member, then Speaker of the Knesset, head of the Jewish agency and the World Zionist Organization and the almost-victorious candidate for the Labor Party leadership in 2001. |
| Interests | Peace |