on marriage and divorce affairs. Political career A member of Meretz, he narrowly missed out on being elected to the fifteenth Knesset in 1999, but as the next placed candidate on the party's list, he became an MK when Amnon Rubinstein resigned in 2002, making him the first openly homosexual member of the Knesset. For the 2003 elections he was placed 15th on the party's list, and lost his seat when they won only six seats. In 2006, Even announced he was leaving Meretz and joining the Labor Party, feeling comfortable doing so after he noticed that Labor promised equality to all citizens in its election manifesto. References External links Uzi Even's homepage on the Tel Aviv University website Info on the Even-Lavie Valve 1940 births Living people 20th-century Israeli military personnel 21st-century Israeli military personnel Gay academics Gay scientists Gay politicians Gay Jews Israeli activists Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Israeli physical chemists Jewish Israeli politicians LGBT members of the Knesset LGBT military personnel Israeli LGBT rights activists Israeli LGBT scientists Israeli gay men Members of the 15th Knesset (1999–2003) Meretz politicians People from Haifa Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Tel Aviv University alumni Academic staff of Tel Aviv University