Ronen Tzur
Ronen Tzur | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2006 | Labor |
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| Born | 27 July 1969 |
Ronen Tzur (Hebrew: רונן צור, born 27 July 1969) is an Israeli politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party in 2006.
Political career
[edit]Ronen Tzur entered politics in 1990, joining the Labor Party. In later years he served as coordinator of the party's faction at the Knesset (under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin), political advisor to minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and director of an association for discharged soldiers. He was placed 28th on the Labor Party list for the 2003 elections,[1] in which the party won 19 seats. However, he entered the Knesset on 22 January 2006 following the resignation of Salah Tarif, serving during the last three months of its term.
In 2010, Tzur advised former president Moshe Katzav regarding the allegations of rape for which he was convicted in 2010.[2]
In 2018, through his company, Rosenbaum Communications, a public relations firm; Tzur led a strategic media smear campaign to block the extradition of Malka Leifer, a former school principal and the accused in the Adass Israel School sex abuse scandal, whom Australia has attempted to extradite to stand trial for 74 counts of child sex abuse.[3][2]
In early 2019, Tzur became an official advisor to former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Benny Gantz and the Israel Resilience Party.[2]
During the Israel-Hamas war, Tzur was a media advisor to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. In February 2024, he stepped down after 45 families had signed a petition seeking his ouster.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Labor Party list Israel Democracy Institute
- ^ a b c Magid, Jacob (15 February 2019). "Alleged sex abuser's former PR guru now working for Benny Gantz". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ Magid, Jacob (28 November 2018). "PR firm plans smear of minister to block extradition of alleged sex abuser". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Official at head of hostage families group steps down under pressure". Times of Israel. 2024-02-18. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
External links
[edit]- Ronen Tzur on the Knesset website