Eitan Cabel
Ministerial roles
2006–2007Minister without Portfolio
Faction represented in the Knesset
1996–1999Labor Party
2001One Israel
2001–2015Labor Party
2015–2019Zionist Union
2019Labor Party
Personal details
Born (1959-08-23) 23 August 1959 (age 64)
Rosh HaAyin, Israel

Eitan Cabel (Hebrew: איתן כבל; born 23 August 1959) is an Israeli politician who represented the Israeli Labor Party in the Knesset from 1996 to 2019.[1]

Biography

Eitan Cabel was born in Rosh HaAyin. After serving in the Israeli Defense Force,[2] he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was president of the Students' Union.

He is married with 4 children.[3]

Political career

After his graduation he worked as an aide to Agriculture Minister Avraham Katz-Oz, Shimon Peres and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.[4]

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.[5]

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.[1][6][7]

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.[8]

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."[9]

Following a clash with then Labor party leader, Avi Gabbay, in 2019,[10] Cabel was placed at the 15th slot of the party slate and failed to retain his seat in the elections for the 21st Knesset.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Minister Eitan Cabel resigns". Ynetnews. 1 May 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Eitan Cabel". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  3. ^ "The Knesset". Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Eitan Cabel, MK". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Knesset Member, Eitan Cabel". Knesset.
  6. ^ Hillel Fendel (May 1, 2007). "First Post-Winograd Resignation: Minister Eitan Cabel of Labor". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  7. ^ Mazal Mualem (1 May 2007). "Minister Cabel quits gov't, calls on Olmert to follow his example". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 3 May 2007.
  8. ^ Harel-Kfir, Dafna (January 7, 2013). "New Law Limits Call Center Waiting". Globes. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
  9. ^ "The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2014". en.idi.org.il (in Hebrew). 21 July 2015. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  10. ^ Wootliff, Raoul. "Falling short in primary, veteran Labor MK Eitan Cabel says Gabbay 'took me out'". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  11. ^ mfa.gov.il https://mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/personalities/pages/eitan%20cabel.aspx. Retrieved 2021-02-08. ((cite web)): Missing or empty |title= (help)

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