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January 18 • 2007

2006 simon rockower awards

nesset Member Yuri Stern
of the Israel Our Home
party died of cancer Jan.
16, 2007, at age 58. Just two weeks
ago, the Knesset approved his bill
providing government grants to
22,000 poor Holocaust survivors
who arrived in Israel after 1953.
Stern has been baffling cancer for
the past year while continuing to
serve in parliament.
Stern was first elected to Knesset
in 1996 as part of the Yisrael
Be'aliyah party. In 1999, he joined
Avigdor Lieberman's Israel Our
Home party. When the party joined
the coalition, he served as chairman
of the State Control Committee.
Stern also served in the past
as deputy minister in the prime
minister's office and a member of
the Committee for Immigration,
Absorption and Diaspora Affairs.
Stern, who arrived from Moscow
in 1981, was a staunch advocate
of aliyah (immigration to Israel)
and the founder of the Knesset's
Christian Allies Caucus, a group
dedicated to coalescing support for
Israel among Christian groups, par-
ticularly evangelicals.
Among Stern's public posts: activ-
ist in the movement for immigrants
from the former Soviet Union and
other organizations encouraging
aliyah, chairman of the Union for
New Entrepreneurs, member of the
Presidency of the Zionist Forum and
member of the management of the
Israel Forum.
Stern returned to politics in 2006,
having been away for a while due of
his cancer illness.
"Your concern helped me no
less than medicines;' he told mem-
bers of the Knesset's State Control
Committee, which he chaired.
Stern submitted a number of key
bills including bills for the protec-
tion of the environment.
A month earlier, a bill he sub-
mitted to make freelancers and
independent employees eligible for
unemployment allowances passed a
first reading.
The party's Web site said that
in the 16th Knesset, four of Stern's
many draft bills were approved
and became law, he delivered 206
speeches, and attended 92 percent
of parliamentary sessions. 1-1