Deletion of Ilan Shohat

Comment: Doesn't need to meet , when it plainly meets GNG.  Plenty of coverage about him on account of his decision to give up his Knesset seat, and previous non-Knesset activity.  What's the point to delete a non-promotional, well soruced article about a man with plenty of media coverage, just because he's not quite as prominent as some users would like?  Spare a few kilobytes for the poor mayor of Safed; his article meets our standards
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)