Retired superintendent Moshe Mizrachi He passed away tonight (Sunday) at the age of 72. Mizrahi was an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party, as well as the head of the investigation department in the police.
Moshe Mizrahi was born in the Scottish Hospital in Tiberias on September 20, 1950, the seventh of the eight children of Jacob and Belha. Upon his enlistment in the IDF, in November 1968, Mizrahi was assigned to the Golani Brigade and he volunteered for the Nut Patrol. After an infantry training course, he was injured in a training accident, lost his right eye and was subsequently released from the IDF.
The last post of this honest, good and special man, the warrior of justice, the late Moshe Mizrahi. Of blessed memory pic.twitter.com/7z01Sk4L61
— Baruch Kra (@baruchikra) December 11, 2022
Mizrachi earned a bachelor’s degree in law at Tel Aviv University, qualified as a lawyer and then joined the police in March 1976 as a police prosecutor. Later, he was appointed head of the crime investigation department at the Jaffa station, an investigation division officer in the Yarkon region (1986-1989), served as commander of the Jaffa station (1991-1992) and deputy commander of the Ayalon region.
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In 1993 he was appointed commander of the Yehuda Region, the most prominent event in the region during his time as commander was when a resident of Kiryat Arba, Baruch Goldstein, carried out the massacre of the Cave of the Patriarchs. In September 1995 he was appointed commander of the college for senior police officers.
About two years later, he was appointed head of Yahabal (a national unit for the investigation of serious international crimes). In December 2000, he was appointed by the Minister of Internal Security, Shlomo Ben Ami, as head of the Investigations and Intelligence Division at the rank of lieutenant. In November 2004, Mizrahi was removed from his position by the Minister of Internal Security, Gideon Ezra, but he did not He was asked to retire from the police.In 2005 he was appointed commander of the community and civil guard division and in July 2006 he finished his service with the police.
A few years later, he began his public activity when in January 2012 he announced his candidacy in the preliminary elections for the Israeli Labor Party list for the Knesset elections. Mizrahi was placed 15th on the party list and from that place was elected to the nineteenth Knesset. In this Knesset he served as a member of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child as well as the Special Committee for the Problem of Foreign Workers.
He also served as the chairman of the lobby for the fight against corruption in the public administration. As part of his position, he promoted a bill according to which an elected official who is accused of an offense involving scandal will not be able to return and be elected to public office in the future. In this Knesset, he led a number of other laws, among them, the application of the Freedom of Information Law to the National Fund for Israel, the obligation to record a protocol in the deliberations of the Committee of Ministers for Legislative Affairs, as well as the publication of the way the members of the committee voted.