1. Yossi Sarid was an Israeli politician and news commentator.
15 Facts About Yossi Sarid
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Yossi Sarid served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006.
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Yosef Sarid was born in Rehovot, Sarid served in the Artillery Corps and as a Military Correspondent during his national service in the IDF.
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Yossi Sarid earned an MA in political science from New School for Social Research in New York City.
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Yossi Sarid was a resident of Margaliyot in the Upper Galilee.
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Yossi Sarid was married to Dorit, with whom he had three children, including the writer Yishai Yossi Sarid.
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Yossi Sarid died on the evening of 4 December 2015 from an apparent heart attack.
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Yossi Sarid is buried in Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha cemetery, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
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Yossi Sarid worked as a media aide to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
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Yossi Sarid was first elected to the Knesset in 1973 on the Alignment list.
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Yossi Sarid was re-elected on the Ratz list in 1988.
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Yossi Sarid was appointed Minister of the Environment, a position he kept when Shimon Peres formed a new government after Rabin's assassination in 1995.
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Yossi Sarid explained the breaking of his vow in the need to promote the peace process.
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However, in 2000 Yossi Sarid resigned from the government and Meretz quit the coalition after failing to agree on authority to be given for Shas deputy minister of education.
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Yossi Sarid remained a member of the Knesset until the 2006 elections, when Meretz was reduced to 5 seats, after which he retired from politics, a plan he had announced the previous year.