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Israeli politician (born )

Michael Bar-Zohar (Hebrew: מיכאל בר-זהר, born 30 January ) is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician.^[1] He was a member of the Knesset on behalf of the Alignment and Labor Party in the s and early '90s.

Biography

Born in Bulgaria, Bar-Zohar immigrated to Israel in He attended High School Heh in Tel Aviv and went on to study economics and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied at the Institute of Political Science in the University of Paris, where he earned a PhD.

He became science editor for Davar, a weekly newspaper in , but left the job the following year. Between and he wrote for LaMerhav, an Israeli newspaper in Paris. In he became a spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and later lectured at the University of Haifa between and

Political career

Bar-Zohar became involved in politics in the s, and joined Rafi upon its foundation in Rafi merged into