Abraham Sharir (Hebrew: אברהם שריר, romanized: Avraham Sharir‎; 23 December 1932 – 24 March 2017)[1] was an Israeli politician.

Sharir was born in 1932 in Iași in Kingdom of Romania, where he attended high school.

After immigrating to Palestine in the 1940s, he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was certified as a lawyer.

In April he became involved in "the dirty trick" by joining Shimon Peres' attempt to form a narrow government.

[2] When that move failed, he accepted a request made by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to return to the Likud.