Ricardo Israel
Ricardo Jacob Israel Zipper is a Chilean lawyer and academician. Israel was a candidate for President of Chile in 2013, representing the Regionalist Party of the Independents, but lost the election obtaining 0.57 per cent of the vote.Biography
Israel is married to Sara Cofré, has two children, and three grandsons. He completed his university studies in 1981 at the Law Faculty of the University of Chile, becoming a lawyer. He has a master in Latin American Government and Politics, and a doctorate in political science at the University of Essex, and a degree in law at the University of Barcelona.
