{{Short description|Israeli politician (born 1956)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Weizman Shiry |native_name = {{Nobold|{{Script/Hebrew|ויצמן שירי}}}} |native_name_lang = he |image = Weizman Shiry (IH001409606028).jpg |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|02|05|df=y}} |birth_place = Beersheba, Israel |death_date = |death_place = |suboffice1 = One Israel |office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset |subterm1 = 1999–2001 |suboffice2 = Labor Party |subterm2 = 2001–2003 |suboffice3 = Labor Party |subterm3 = 2006 }} '''Weizman Shiry''' ({{langx|he|ויצמן שירי}}; born 5 February 1956) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party.
==Biography== Shiry was born in Beersheba in 1956 and was named after the first president of Israel Chaim Weizmann. He served in the Hermesh unit of the Israel Defense Forces. He then turned to business and headed several industrial companies, including a real estate company and a juice company which he purchased in 2007 for NIS 5 million.<ref name=weitz>{{Cite news | last = Weitz | first = Gidi | title = Who are you calling a courtier? | work=Haaretz | accessdate =5 June 2009 | date = 5 June 2009 | url = https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090682.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121022082321/http://www.haaretz.com/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 22 October 2012 }}</ref>
He entered politics in 1984. His political activity included his membership in the internal institutions of the Labor Party, as well as being chairman of the party's Negev district.<ref name=weitz/> He was on the party's list for the 1996 legislative elections, but failed to win a seat.
In 1999, he was first elected to the Knesset and was chairman of the Joint Committee for the Defense Budget. In August 2002, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense, under Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and maintained this position for three months, until the party's withdrawal from the coalition. He remained in the Knesset until the expiration of its term, in 2003.<ref name=weitz/> In January 2006, he re-entered the Knesset, replacing Shimon Peres, and served until the expiration of the Knesset's term in April 2006.
In April 2009, he was appointed temporary secretary-general of the Labor Party.<ref>[http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710762547&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull "Labor treasurer resigns in protest"], ''The Jerusalem Post'', 23 April 2009</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shiry, Weizman}} Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Deputy ministers of Israel Category:Israeli Labor Party politicians Category:Members of the 15th Knesset (1999–2003) Category:Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006) Category:One Israel politicians Category:Politicians from Beersheba