Education
After completing his service, he studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Rabbinical Ordination, and went on to work as an administrator.
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Ofer Hugi
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In 2007 he was sent to prison for various charges related to forgery and fraud. However, Hugi lost his seat in the 2003 elections when the party was reduced to 11 seats (he was 12th on the list), possibly as a result of the party"s growing reputation for corruption, several of its members having been convicted of various fraudulent offences. This was in relation to a technical college which he founded in the late 1990s, and had received hundreds of thousand of shekels for, though it later became apparent that the lists of students and teachers he had provided were fictitious.
In February 2007, Hugi was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of 12,000 shekels.
Achievements
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After finishing school, Hugi was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, where he attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. He was elected to the Knesset in the 1999 elections when the party won an unprecedented 17 seats, making it the third largest party after One Israel (the Labour Party) and Likud. He did briefly enter the Knesset at the end of April 2006 after Shas MK Yair Peretz had resigned from the Knesset after being convicted of fraud (he had fraudulently obtained an academic degree), but the Knesset was dissolved on 17 April and Hugi did not win a seat in the 2006 elections.
Politics
Hugi joined Shas, a Mizrahi/Sephardi Ultra-orthodox party.
