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Israeli economist (born 1950) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg ( Hebrew : מנואל טרכטנברג ; born 21 September 1950) is an Israeli economist who was the chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel . He was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in August 2011 to lead a committee for negotiations with the Israeli protesters and for recommending economic measures to overcome the crisis. He is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Trajtenberg joined the Zionist Union list in December 2014 and was elected to the Knesset in 2015. However, he left politics in 2017.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) member of the Knesset Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg ( born 21 September 1950) is an Israeli economist, chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel . He was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in August 2011 to lead a committee for negotiations with the Israeli protesters and for recommending economic measures to overcome the crisis. Trajtenberg joined the Zionist Union list in December 2014, where he would run for the 20th Knesset elections .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
( Learn how and when to remove this message ) member of the Knesset Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg ( born 21 September 1950) is an Israeli economist and chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel . He was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in August 2011 to lead a committee for negotiations with the Israeli protesters and for recommending economic measures to overcome the crisis. Trajtenberg joined the Zionist Union list in December 2014 and was elected to the Knesset in 2015.However, he left politics in 2017.
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg ( born 21 September 1950) is an Israeli economist who was the chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel . He was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in August 2011 to lead a committee for negotiations with the Israeli protesters and for recommending economic measures to overcome the crisis. He is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Trajtenberg joined the Zionist Union list in December 2014 and was elected to the Knesset in 2015. However, he left politics in 2017.
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israeli economist
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israeli economist who was the chair of the planning and budgeting committee of the council for higher education
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