FILE PHOTO - Israeli director-general of the Water Authority and Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (L) and Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Raed Abu Soud are interviewed by TV stations after the opening session of The Ministerial Conference on Water at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea Shore near Amman December 22, 2008. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed/File Photo
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former Israeli defence minister and veteran politician who once served as his country's pointman with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, died on Sunday. He was 80.
Ben-Eliezer had been in poor health for several years and retired from politics under a cloud in 2014.
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