Stas Misezhnikov (Hebrew: סטס מיסז'ניקוב; born 28 February 1969) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and as the country's Minister of Tourism.
After finishing his military service in the Israel Defense Forces, he studied at Tel Aviv University, earning a BA in Social and Political Sciences in 1992 and an MA in Business Administration and Marketing in 2000.
[2] The Israeli Embassy in Madrid called his visit to Spain an embarrassment after Misezhnikov allegedly canceled a dinner with business contacts in favor of private partying.
[5] In the aftermath of the 2012 Burgas bus bombing, Misezhnikov traveled to Bulgaria in an effort to maintain its tourism connections with Israel.
A Channel 2 report cited anonymous former bodyguards of Misezhnikov's who claimed that the minister regularly went out drinking and attended strip clubs.