Yuli Tamir

Yael "Yuli" Tamir (Hebrew: יולי תמיר, born 26 February 1954) is an Israeli academic, politician and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. She is now Minister of Education, representing the Labour Party.

Between 1972-1974, she served in Aman's 848 Unit, and during the Yom Kippur War, she served as an officer in an outpost on the Sinai. Tamir received a BA in Biology and an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received a PhD in Political Philosophy from Oxford. During 1989-1999, she was a philosophy lecturer in Tel Aviv University and a research fellow in the Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, Princeton and Harvard universities.

Tamir was one of the founders of Peace Now (1978), and between 1980-1985, she was an activist for Ratz. From 1998-1999, she was chairwoman of the Israeli Association for Civil Rights. From 1995, she became active in the Labour party. Although Tamir failed to win election to the Knesset in the 1999 election, she was appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption by Ehud Barak. She was elected to the Knesset in the following 2003 election, and served on the finance, constitutional, law and order, public input, and culture and sport committees. She also served on the investigatory parliamentary committee into government corruption.

She was elected to the Knesset again in the 2006 elections, and as of May 4, 2006, is the Education Minister in Ehud Olmert's Kadima-led coalition government. She was also acting Science, Culture and Sport minister following Ophir Pines-Paz's resignation in November 2006 until March 2007 when Raleb Majadele was appointed.

Selected publications

• Tamir, Yael (1993). Liberal Nationalism. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 069100174X.

External links

Yuli Tamir on the Knesset website