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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Monday, March 7, 2022
Disgraced former finance minister Avraham Hirschson dies at 81
Avraham Hirchson at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 24 2008 (Michal Fattal/Flash90)
Former finance minister Avraham Hirschson dies at 81, Hebrew-language media reports.
Hirschson served as a member of the Knesset for both the Likud and Kadima parties.
In 2009 he was convicted of a string of crimes including aggravated fraud, theft, breach of trust, money laundering, and forgery of corporate documents after embezzling millions from a union he used to run.
He sentenced to five and a half years behind bars along with a NIS 450,000 fine. A parole board granted him early release for good behavior in 2012 and he left jail in 2013.
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