Nino Abesadze

Nino Abesadze
Date of birth	12 April 1965 (1965-04-12) (age 46)
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Soviet Union
Year of aliyah	1996
Knessets	18
Party	Kadima

Nino Abesadze (Hebrew: נינו אבסדזה‎; Georgian: ნინო აბესაძე, born 12 April 1965) is an Israeli politician and journalist who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima.

Biography

Born in Tbilisi in the Soviet Union (today in Georgia), Abesadze graduated from the Film School at the Open University of Georgia, before studying for degrees in Russian literature and linguistics at Tbilisi State University. At the age of 23 she began working for Georgian State Television, becoming the presenter of the evening news two years later.

Her mother and three sisters had immigrated to Israel after her father died in 1980, settling in Rehovot, and later Ashdod. Abesadze remained in Georgia, and in the 1990s began a relationship with Baruch Ben-Neria, the Israeli ambassador to Georgia and Armenia from 1993 until 1996. She made aliyah in 1996 and worked in Israel on Russian language programmes for Channel 33, before joining a Russian language newspaper.

A member of Kadima, she was on the party's list for the 2009 Knesset elections, but was not high enough on the list to win a seat. However, she entered the Knesset on 9 November 2010 as a replacement for Tzachi Hanegbi,^[1] who had been convicted of a crime (perjury) deemed to be of moral turpitude, thereby losing his seat.^[2]

References

1. ^ Current Knesset Members of the Eighteenth Knesset: Replacements Among Knesset Members Knesset website
2. ^ MK Hanegbi suspended from Knesset over moral turpitude conviction Haaretz, 9 November 2011

External links

• Nino Abesadze Knesset website

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Name	Abesadze, Nino
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Date of birth	12 April 1965
Place of birth	Tbilisi, Soviet Union
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