Education
He was educated at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh, before graduating from a Teachers" Seminary in Jerusalem and receiving a Bachelor from Bar-Ilan University.
educationist politician Knesset member
He was educated at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh, before graduating from a Teachers" Seminary in Jerusalem and receiving a Bachelor from Bar-Ilan University.
A former mayor of Ramla, he held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but resigned from the cabinet after being convicted of larceny, breach of trust and fraud. Born in the Tafilalt region of Morocco in 1938, Abuhatzira made aliyah to Israel in 1949. He went on to work as a high school teacher.
He was elected to Ramla city council in 1969 and in 1972 became its mayor.
In June 1980 Israel Police began investigating claims that Abuhatzira had received 52,500 shekels from religious institutions in 1978 and 1979 for giving funds to non-existent yeshivas. Although he denied the allegations, stating that they were "provocation and a libel", in December 1980 Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir requested that the Knesset lift Abuhatzira"s parliamentary immunity so that he could be charged with bribery.
On 13 January 1981 the Knesset plenum agreed to remove his parliamentary immunity. In protest, Abuhatzira left the NRP and formed his own party, Tami.
Despite the legal case, Abuhatzira was appointed both Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Labor and Social Welfare.
However, after being found guilty on 19 April 1982, he resigned from the cabinet on 30 April, after which fellow Tami MK Aharon Uzan took over his portfolios. He was sentenced to a suspended sentence of four years and three months. Thirty months for larceny, eighteen months for breach of trust and fraud by an administrator, and three months for breach of trust by a public servant.
He was elected to the Knesset in 1977 on the National Religious Party"s list, and was appointed Minister of Religions in Menachem Begin"s government.