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Ilan Shohat
Edit Profilemayor politician mayor of Safed
Education
In 2015, he was elected to the Knesset, but chose not to take his seat days before he was to be sworn in.
Career
In 2010, he was the youngest mayor in Israel. He is secular.
Shohat was first elected, a city in the Israeli Galilee, in 2008. He was a representative of an independent list identified with Kadima and was supported by Yisrael Beiteinu and the Labor Party.
In 2009, he visited Bowling Green, Kentucky, asking for help providing transportable bomb shelters to Israel.
In 2010 Shohat was Israel"s youngest mayor. In 2012, he was investigated on suspicion of taking a bribe during the 2008 elections, but the Northern District Prosecutor" General’ s Office decided to close the case.
He was re-elected Mayor easily in 2013. That year, Shohat stirred controversy when he decided that a medical school should be built in the city that would attract many non-Jewish students.
In December 2014 he indicated that though he considers "the absorption of the wounded Syrians a moral and Jewish obligation of the first degree", he wanted the Israeli Health Ministry to, instead of directing wounded Syrians to hospitals in the North of Israel that are facing financial issues, send them to better-equipped hospitals in central Israel.
He joined Yisrael Beiteinu in 2012. His party received six seats in the election. One week after he was elected to the Knesset and days before he was scheduled to be sworn in, Shohat chose not to take his seat.
His decision permitted MK Robert Ilatov (the next in line on the Yisrael Beiteinu list) to remain in the Knesset.
Achievements
Membership
He ran for local office in Safed as a member of the Likud and also ran for the head of Kadima.
