Dov Khenin

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Dov Khenin (Hebrew: דב חנין) (born: January 10, 1958) is an Israeli political-scientist, lawyer, and Knesset member for Hadash.

Khenin is a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Israel, an activist for socio-economic equality and an environmentalist. His father was David Khenin, who was one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Israel.

Khenin co-chairs the Knesset's larget lobby, the Socio-environmental Lobby, along with Rabbi Michael Melchior, and is also a member of the Knesset's Environment and Interior Committee and the Committee for the Rights of the Child. During 2003, Khenin volunteered to be the legal representatives of five refusniks before a Military tribunal in what became known as the Refusnik Trial.

During the legislative election of 2003, Khenin was 500 votes short of being elected to the Knesset for the Hadash-Ta'al list. Some pressure was placed on Mohammad Barakeh to give up his seat for Khenin so that the list would have one Jewish representative in the Knesset, but Barakeh refused. Khenin was subsequently elected to the Knesset in the legislative election of 2006.

Khenin has a PhD in political-science from Tel Aviv University and during late 2005, conducted a series of lectures on globalization in the IDF radio's Broadcast University program. Until early 2006, he was the chairman of the umbrella organization, Environment and Life (חיים וסביבה), which amalgamates 80 or so environmental organizations in Israel.

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• dovblog Blog and Parliamentary Website