Pinhas "Pini" Badash is an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i politician who has served as mayor of Omer

Omer, Israel

Omer is a town in the South District of Israel, bordering Beersheba. It is located on Highway 60, between Beersheba and the Shoket Junction. Pini Badash has served as head of its local council since 1990....

 local council since 1990. He was also a member of the Knesset for Tzomet

Tzomet

Tzomet is a small secular, right-wing political party in Israel.-Ideology:The party was the one who first brought the "peace for peace" slogan, which today is used by all Israeli right wing parties and movements...

 between 1992 and 1998.

Biography

Born in moshav Gilat

Gilat

Gilat is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the western Negev desert between Beersheba and Ofakim, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 965.The moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants from Tunisia...

, Badash studied mechanical engineering at the Negev University

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev   is a university in Beersheba, Israel, established in 1969. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has a current enrollment of 17,400 students, and is one of Israel's fastest growing universities....

, graduating in 1979. He finished a master's degree in administration in 2001.

A member of the Tzomet secretariat and chairman of its finance committee, Badash became head of Omer local council in 1990. He was elected to the Knesset on the party's list in 1992

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the electoral threshold and thus effectively...

. Chairman of the Israel-China

People's Republic of China

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 Parliamentary Friendship League, he was re-elected in 1996

Israeli legislative election, 1996

Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 29 May 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%.The 1996 elections included two new changes, both designed to increase the stability of the Knesset. First, the Prime Minister was to be elected on a separate ballot from the remaining members of the...

, but resigned his seat on 30 November 1998 after a new law was passed preventing Knesset members from simultaneously acting as mayors or council heads, and was replaced by Doron Shmueli

Doron Shmueli

Doron Shmueli is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between November 1998 and June 1999.-Biography:Shmueli attended Meir Shfeya agricultural high school, before gaining an LLB at university....

.

Badash remains head of Omer local council, and has also served as a member of the Authority for Developing the Negev

Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region, refer to the desert as al-Naqab. The origin of the word Neghebh is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'...

 and chairman of the Local Authority Committee for Developing the Negev and the Negev Lobby.

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