Political Career
| Stef Wertheimer | |
|---|---|
| Year of aliyah | 1937 |
| Knessets | 9 |
| Party represented in Knesset | |
| 1977–1978 | Democratic Movement for Change |
| 1978–1981 | Shinui |
In 1977 Wertheimer was amongst the founding members of Democratic Movement for Change, a new centrist political party. The party was highly successful, winning 15 seats in the 1977 elections, with Wertheimer taking one of the seats. When the party split up in 1978, he joined Shinui. In 1981 following an accident, he resigned from the Knesset (was replaced by Stella Levy) and returned to his business ventures. During his term in the Knesset, he was a member of the Economics Committee.
Prior to 2013 elections, he took the honorary final slot on Tzipi Livni's new list, Hatnuah.
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