{{short description|Israeli politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Danny Atar (AS5V7411).jpg | caption = Atar in 2015 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|1|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Afula, Israel | death_date = | death_place = | suboffice1 = Zionist Union | office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset | subterm1 = 2015–2016 }}
'''Daniel Atar''' ({{langx|he|דניאל עטר}}; born 5 January 1958) is an Israeli politician. He was a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union between 2015 and 2016.
==Biography== Daniel Atar was born in Afula, Israel, to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Morocco in 1956. During his IDF national service he served in the Golani Brigade. He fought in the 1982 Lebanon War. He continued to serve in the army reserves, becoming a lieutenant colonel.
In 1994 he was elected leader of Gilboa Regional Council.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Gilboa Council head suspected of fraud, detained by police |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel/gilboa-council-head-suspected-of-fraud-detained-by-police |access-date=24 June 2022 |website=The Jerusalem Post |date=31 December 2009 |language=en-US}}</ref> While serving in that role he ran for the interim leadership of the Labor Party in 2003, winning 21.9% of the vote.<ref>{{Cite web |title=פרס נבחר ליו"ר הזמני: "נחזיר את המפלגה לגדולתה" |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2662173,00.html |access-date=24 June 2022|website=Yedioth Ahronoth|language=he}}</ref> In 2009, Atar was detained and investigated along with five other municipal workers for fraudulently receiving goods and mismanagement of campaign funds.<ref name=":0" />
He was placed 16th on the Labor Party list for the 2013 Knesset elections, a spot reserved for the agricultural sector,<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/2012-11-30/ty-article/.premium/yacimovichs-mixed-blessings/0000017f-e984-df5f-a17f-fbdeb2780000 The new Labor list: A mixed blessing for Yacimovich] Haaretz, 30 November 2012</ref> but did not become a Knesset member as the party won only 15 seats. Although he was next in line to replace Binyamin Ben-Eliezer following his retirement from politics, he gave up his seat for Raleb Majadele.<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188622#.VI4SHmIaySM Raleb Majadla Replaces Ben Eliezer in Knesset] Israel National News, 14 December 2014</ref>
Prior to the 2015 elections he was placed 15th on the Zionist Union list,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180725214450/http://www.bechirot20.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=8&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text Zionist Union list] Central Elections Committee</ref> an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah. He was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 24 seats.<ref>[http://bechirot20.gov.il/election/english/kneset20/Pages/results20_eng.aspx Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset] Central Elections Committee</ref>
In October 2015 Atar was elected head of the Jewish National Fund.<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4713555,00.html Zionist Union MK Danny Atar elected head of KKL-JNF; to be replaced in Knesset by Yael Cohen Paran] Ynetnews, 19 October 2015</ref> He was replaced in the Knesset by Yael Cohen Paran, the head of the Green Movement. In 2020 Atar was accused of being party to the illegal spending of 100 million shekels to purchase lands in the West Bank without the permission of the Jewish National Fund Board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-11-08/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israel-settlements-jewish-national-fund-kkl-jerusalem-buying-west-bank/0000017f-e0d4-df7c-a5ff-e2fe4c4e0000|title = Israeli right's new bank – the Jewish National Fund| last1=Drucker | first1=Raviv | website = Haaretz }}</ref>
==Personal life== Atar is married with three children and lives in Gan Ner. After years of enforcement efforts he was fined in 2020 and forced to return public lands adjacent to his home, which he had commandeered and used to construct an illegal private swimming pool.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mako.co.il/news-israel/2020_q2/Article-4ed46d604dbf271026.htm|title = בית המשפט: יו"ר קק"ל חרג משטחו וישלם פיצוי|website=Mako|date = 28 June 2020}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Atar, Danny}} Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:Israeli Labor Party politicians Category:Zionist Union politicians Category:Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent Category:Israeli Mizrahi Jews Category:Israeli Sephardi Jews Category:Jewish Israeli politicians Category:Mayors of places in Israel Category:Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019) Category:People from Afula