in 2012: "So far Palestinians have kept quiet, but one day they will awake and the explosion will happen. People don't accept [being] under military rule for 50 years." Death On the afternoon of 28 August 2016, Binyamin died at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center from kidney disease. He was 80 years old. See also Iraqi Jews in Israel References External links Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1936 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Israeli military personnel Alignment (Israel) politicians Iraqi emigrants to Israel Iraqi Jews Israeli generals Israeli Mizrahi Jews Israeli Labor Party leaders Jewish Israeli politicians Leaders of the Opposition (Israel) Members of the 11th Knesset (1984–1988) Members of the 12th Knesset (1988–1992) Members of the 13th Knesset (1992–1996) Members of the 14th Knesset (1996–1999) Members of the 15th Knesset (1999–2003) Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006) Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009) Members of the 18th Knesset (2009–2013) Members of the 19th Knesset (2013–2015) Ministers of Communications of Israel Ministers of Defense of Israel Ministers of Housing of Israel One Israel politicians People from Basra Yahad (defunct political party) politicians