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Place of birth
  
Soviet Union

Role
  
Israeli Politician

Name
  
Yitzhak Gagula

1999–2003
  
Shas

Year of aliyah
  
1972


Date of birth
  
(1964-01-01) 1 January 1964 (age 51)

Knessets
  
Israeli general election, 1999

Yitzhak Gagula (Hebrew: יצחק גאגולה‎, born 1 January 1964) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas between 1999 and 2003.

Biography

Gagula was born Isaak Gagulashvili (Georgian: ისააკ გაგულაშვილი) in the Georgian SSR in the Soviet Union and was educated at a yeshiva, Gagula made aliyah to Israel in 1972.

For the 1999 Knesset elections he was placed 18th on the Shas list. Although the party won only 17 seats, Gagula entered the Knesset at the start of the term as the party's top candidate, Aryeh Deri, resigned due to a corruption trial.

He lost his seat in the 2003 elections.

References

Yitzhak Gagula Wikipedia