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Shimon Solomon (; born 5 August 1968) is an Israeli diplomat and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2015 and was appointed Ambassador to Angola in 2022.
In 1999 he returned to the Ministry of Education, where he worked as an advisor to two Education Ministers until 2001. After a short spell at the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel in 2003, he became Director of Employment Services for Ethiopian Academics for the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Absorption between 2003 and 2005.
Solomon began studying for an MA in educational policy in administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004, but ended his studies to go abroad, having been appointed as a consul at the Israeli embassy in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia in 2005. Returning to Israel, he became director of an immigrant absorption centre in Beersheba from 2007 to 2008. He then worked as director of education at the Agahozo-Shalom youth village, a boarding school in Rwanda from 2008 to 2012. All the kingmaker's men, and women The Times of Israel, 23 January 2013
He was one of the founders of the new Yesh Atid party prior to the 2013 elections, and was placed twelfth on the party's list, Yesh Atid Central Elections Committee becoming a Knesset member as the party won 19 seats. Prior to the 2015 elections, he chose not to run for re-election. MK Shimon Solomon Taking Break from Politics Israel National News, 22 January 2015 In 2022 he was appointed Ambassador to Angola.
For several years was the CEO of the High School of Agriculture and Science at Kfar Silver.
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