Amram Mitzna

Amram Mitzna (Hebrew: עמרם מצנע; born 20 February 1945) is an Israeli politician and former general in the IDF.

In 1977 he graduated from the University of Haifa with a degree in geography, before studying at the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania, finishing his course in 1979.

[2] He won the Labor's leadership election on 19 November 2002 with 53.6% of the vote, defeating incumbent Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Member of the Knesset Haim Ramon.

In April 2008 and June 2009, Mitzna signed letters of support for the recently created J Street American pro-peace lobby group.

[8] On 24 December 2014 he announced he was retiring from politics and would not seek re-election in 2015, although he supported the Zionist Union, an alliance of Hatnuah and Labor that had been formed for the elections.