# Uriel Lynn

Uriel Lynn (Hebrew: אוריאל לין; born 2 April 1935) is an attorney and the President of the Tel Aviv and Central Israel Chamber of Commerce, as well as the President of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce. He previously served as a member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), the Director of the Israeli-North American Investment Authority, the Director of State Revenue, the Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, and the Chairperson of the Executive Council of the Israel National Road Safety Authority. Lynn is also actively involved in matters related to Israeli business and public policy. Additionally, he formerly served as a board member of several public companies and as an arbitrator in various domestic and international arbitrations.

## Biography

Lynn was born Uriel Asulin in Jerusalem during the Mandate era. His father, Yehonatan Asulin was from Morocco, while his mother, Margalit Hazan, was born in Palestine. His grandfather, rabbi Ben-Zion Mordechai Hazan, was one of the founders of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and officially handed over the Old City of Jerusalem to the Jordanians during the Israeli surrender there in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Lynn attended the Nautical School in Haifa. He served in the 7th Armored Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces, and fought as a reservist in the Suez Crisis, Six-Day War, and Yom Kippur War. and afterwards studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of California, Berkeley, earning an LLM from both universities. He was certified as a lawyer devoting two years in litigation of cases related to traffic accidents and from 1965 until 1970 worked as secretary and legal advisor at the ATA textile company.
Between 1969 and 1971 he worked as deputy general manager at Isranyl, a textile factory, which later on was transformed to Jerusalem Jersey Textile where he continued working as managing director between 1972 and 1979.
In 1973 Lynn joined the Liberal Party, which was part of the Likud alliance. He was placed 56th on the Likud list for the 1977 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat. In 1978, following Likud's election victory, Lynn became a civil servant after being appointed Director of the North American Investment Authority. In 1982 he became Director General of the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.
In 1984 Lynn was elected to the Knesset on the Likud list. He was appointed chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and of the Subcommittee for Road Safety, and also chaired the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for Traffic Accidents.
He was re-elected in the 1988 elections after being placed 23rd on the Likud list. In his second term in the Knesset he chaired the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee till 1992.
In 1992 he decided not to run again as candidate to the Israeli Knesset, and established again his own law firm, specializing in arbitration and government.
At the end of 2002 he was elected President of the Tel Aviv & Central Israel Chamber of Commerce and of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce. He also became a member of the board of the Eurochambres and was elected a member of the council of the World Chambers Federation (WCF), a worldwide organization of National Chambers of Commerce.