{{Short description|Israeli politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Eitan Cabel.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|8|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Rosh HaAyin, Israel | death_date = | office2 = Faction represented in the Knesset | suboffice2 = Labor Party | subterm2 = 1996–1999 | suboffice3 = One Israel | subterm3 = 2001 | suboffice4 = Labor Party | subterm4 = 2001–2015 | suboffice5 = Zionist Union | subterm5 = 2015–2019 | suboffice6 = Labor Party | subterm6 = 2019 | office1 = Ministerial roles | suboffice1 = Minister without Portfolio | subterm1 = 2006–2007 | native_name = איתן כבל | native_name_lang = he }} '''Eitan Cabel''' ({{langx|he|איתן כבל}}; born 23 August 1959) is an Israeli politician who represented the Israeli Labor Party in the Knesset from 1996 to 2019.<ref name=YN>{{cite news |date=1 May 2007 |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3394213,00.html |title=Minister Eitan Cabel resigns |publisher=Ynetnews |accessdate=25 March 2015}}</ref>
==Biography== Eitan Cabel was born in Rosh HaAyin. After serving in the Israeli Defense Force,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/cabel.html |title=Eitan Cabel |encyclopedia=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=25 March 2015}}</ref> he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was president of the Students' Union.
He is married with 4 children.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Knesset|url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=64|accessdate=17 February 2017}}</ref>
==Political career== After his graduation he worked as an aide to Agriculture Minister Avraham Katz-Oz, Shimon Peres and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Personalities/From+A-Z/Eitan+Cabel.htm |title=Eitan Cabel, MK |publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |accessdate=25 March 2015}}</ref>
He was first elected to the Knesset in 1996. In the past he served as the chairman of the Subcommittee for the Stock Market, the Economic Affairs Committee, and as the chairman of the Lobby for the Promotion of Culture and Art in Israel. He also served as a member of the House Committee and the Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee, as well the Lobby for Reserve Soldiers and the Social-Environmental Lobby.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=64 |title=Knesset Member, Eitan Cabel |publisher=Knesset}}</ref>
In 2007 he resigned his position as Minister without Portfolio, and told Ehud Olmert to resign as well. He said "I can no longer sit in a government headed by Ehud Olmert." He resigned after the Winograd Commission released a report that blamed Olmert and other members of the Israeli government as being responsible for the failures of the Second Lebanon War.<ref name=YN/><ref>{{cite news |date=May 1, 2007 |author=Hillel Fendel |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122294 |title=First Post-Winograd Resignation: Minister Eitan Cabel of Labor |publisher=Arutz Sheva |accessdate=25 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Mazal Mualem |date= 1 May 2007 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/854476.html |title=Minister Cabel quits gov't, calls on Olmert to follow his example |newspaper=Haaretz |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503024758/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/854476.html |archivedate=3 May 2007}}</ref>
Cabel retained his seat in the 2009 elections, having been placed seventh on the party's list. In that tenure, he initiated a law that put a limit on call center waiting.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000812529&fid=1725 |title=New Law Limits Call Center Waiting |last=Harel-Kfir |first=Dafna |publisher=Globes |date=January 7, 2013 |accessdate=January 12, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118190307/http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000812529 |archivedate=January 18, 2013 }}</ref>
On July 21, 2015, Cabel received the Israel Democracy Institute's Outstanding Parliamentarian Award along with MK Aliza Lavie of the Yesh Atid party for their "exemplary parliamentary activity in 2014."<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2014|url=https://en.idi.org.il/events/7229|access-date=2021-02-08|website=en.idi.org.il|date=21 July 2015 |language=he}}</ref>
Following a clash with then Labor party leader, Avi Gabbay, in 2019,<ref>{{cite news|last=Wootliff|first=Raoul|title=Falling short in primary, veteran Labor MK Eitan Cabel says Gabbay 'took me out'|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/falling-short-in-primary-veteran-labor-mk-eitan-cabel-says-gabbay-took-me-out/|access-date=2021-02-08|website=The Times of Israel|language=en-US |issn=0040-7909}}</ref> Cabel was placed at the 15th slot of the party slate and failed to retain his seat in the elections for the 21st Knesset.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/personalities/pages/eitan%20cabel.aspx|access-date=2021-02-08|website=mfa.gov.il}}</ref>
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