Pinchas Goldstein

Pinchas Goldstein (Hebrew: פנחס גולדשטיין; born 26 August 1939, died 14 August 2007) was an Israeli politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and the New Liberal Party between 1981 and 1992, and as Deputy Minister of Communications and Deputy Minister of Education and Culture during the early 1990s.

Born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era, Goldstein graduated from the Haifa military school of command, a boarding school, and went on to study law at the Tel Aviv branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but did not graduate.

[1] This was part of what became known as the dirty trick, with Shimon Peres attempting to form a new government without Likud.

Although Peres failed, the new faction joined a Likud-led government and Goldstein was appointed as Deputy Minister of Communications, and later Deputy Minister of Education and Culture.

The New Liberal Party failed to cross the electoral threshold in the 1992 elections and Goldstein lost his seat.