{{Short description|Israeli politician}} {{for|an American mime|Samuel Avital}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Shmuel Avital, 1992 Dan Hadani Archive.jpg | caption = Avital in 1992 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|5|24|df=yes}} | birth_place = Casablanca, Morocco | death_date = | death_place = | office1 = Ministerial roles | suboffice1 = Minister without Portfolio | subterm1 = 2001–2002 | office2 = Faction represented in the Knesset | suboffice2 = Labor Party | subterm2 = 1992–1996 }}
'''Shmuel Avital''' ({{langx|he|שמואל אביטל}}; born 24 May 1951) is an Israeli former politician who served as a minister without portfolio responsible for social coordination from March 2001 until February 2002.
==Biography== Born in Casablanca in Morocco, Avital emigrated to Israel in 1953. He studied at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba and worked in agriculture.<ref>[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=130 Samuel Avital: Particulars] Knesset website</ref>
In 1992 he was elected to the Knesset on the Labor Party's list. However, he lost his seat in the 1996 elections. Despite not being a member of the Knesset, in March 2001 he was appointed minister without portfolio responsible for social co-ordination in Ariel Sharon's national unity government. However, he resigned in February the following year.
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==External links== * {{MKlink|id=130}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Avital, Shmuel}} Category:1951 births Category:Moroccan emigrants to France Category:20th-century Moroccan Jews Category:Politicians from Casablanca Category:Government ministers of Israel Category:Living people Category:Israeli Labor Party politicians Category:Members of the 13th Knesset (1992–1996) Category:Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni Category:Moroccan emigrants to Israel