Avi Gabbay

Avi Gabbay
Avi Gabbay
	Gabbay in 2017
Ministerial roles
2015–2016	Minister of Environmental Protection
Faction represented in the Knesset
2019	Labor Party
Personal details
Born	22 February 1967 (age 57); Jerusalem, Israel

Avraham "Avi" Gabbay (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם "אָבִי" גַּבַּאי,^[1] born 22 February 1967) is an Israeli businessman and politician. He was CEO of the telecommunications company Bezeq from 2007 to 2013, then entered politics. He served as Minister of Environmental Protection between 2015 and 2016 as a member of the Kulanu party, before being elected leader of the Israeli Labor Party in 2017. He was elected to the Knesset in April 2019, but resigned as leader shortly afterwards.^[2] He did not run in the September 2019 elections. After leaving politics, Gabbay returned to the business world. He is currently the CEO of Cellcom.

^ תרומות וערבויות למועמדים בבחירות מקדימות Archived 30 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine State Comptroller of Israel
^ Raoul Wootliff (2 July 2019). "Ailing Labor elects past chairman Amir Peretz to lead it through next election". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2 July 2019.

[1] תרומות וערבויות למועמדים בבחירות מקדימות Archived 30 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine State Comptroller of Israel

[2] Raoul Wootliff (2 July 2019). "Ailing Labor elects past chairman Amir Peretz to lead it through next election". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2 July 2019.

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