Avi Edri

Avi Edri (born 13 October 1968) is the chairman of the transport workers union in Israel.

After 3 years of work at the airport as a customs officer, Edri was elected as a member of the Airport Customs Workers' Committee. Afterwards Edri was elected as the Chairman of the Airport Customs Workers' Committee. In 2003, Edri was elected as the Chairman of National Committee of the customs and V.A.T workers in Israel. In 2003, the State employees union under the leadership of offer eyni led a 100 days of struggle against the policy of Ministry of Finance - Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu. During this struggle, Edri went public thanks to the unique struggle against the Ministry of Finance. He ordered all employees to check all suitcases at the airport for 100 days and thus created a long line of passengers. The Constitution Committee of the Israeli Parliament tried to blame Edri in jailing passengers. In response, Edri presented to the Committee reports of findings during the struggle, including reports of captured drugs, guns, gold and diamonds. After he presented the findings – He asked the Committee members to give him a formal approval to release all the passengers. By doing so, he passed the responsibility for the smuggling to the Parliament. During the struggle, Edri ordered to give the passengers flowers and snacks when they were wetting in line. He cared that the disabled and the elderly will not wait in line. In July 2007, Edri was nominated as the Chairman of the Transport workers union in Israel.

In his new role, he built the union institutions. He founded 3 main divisions.

In 2008, the union under his leadership achieves many achievements for the transport workers, in terms of wages, and security in employment, including transferring workers from personal employment contracts to collective agreements. The union under his leadership signed an agreement to cooperate with the Palestinian transport workers union. He also founded a "forum of leaders" from the truck drivers Committee to improve the employment conditions of the truck drivers in Israel. In the Last year, the union under his leadership added more union members.Edri is married and he is a father of three children. In 2009 Edri graduated from Law School.