What is Yisrael Kessar?
[[File:Israel KesarTrnspMinister1996 (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Yisrael Kessar''' ({{lang-he|ישראל קיסר}}, 20 May 1931 – 8 September 2019) was a [[Yemen]]i-born [[Israel]]i politician. He was a [[Knesset]] member for the [[Alignment (political party)|Alignment]] and [[Israeli Labor Party|Labor Party]] between 1984 and 1996. He was [[Ministry of Transport and Road Safety|Minister of Transport and Road Safety]] from 1992 through 1996. Kessar was born in [[Sanaʽa]], [[Yemen]]. He died on 8 September 2019 in [[Haifa]] from [[pneumonia]] at the age of 88.<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-minister-labor-union-head-yisrael-kessar-dies-at-88/ Former minister, labor union head Yisrael Kessar dies at 88]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kessar, Yisrael}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Members of the Knesset]] [[Category:Government ministers of Israel]] [[Category:HaAvoda politicians]] [[Category:Jewish Israeli politicians]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] {{bio-stub}}