Manuel Trajtenberg

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Manuel Trajtenberg
Faction represented in the Knesset
2015–2017	Zionist Union
Personal details
Born	(1950-09-21) 21 September 1950 (age 73) Córdoba, Argentina

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg (Hebrew: מנואל טרכטנברג born 21 September 1950) is an Israeli economist who was the chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel. He was appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in August 2011 to lead a committee for negotiations with the Israeli protesters and for recommending economic measures to overcome the crisis. He is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

Trajtenberg joined the Zionist Union list in December 2014 and was elected to the Knesset in 2015. However, he left politics in 2017.