Yitzhak Levy

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Yitzhak Levy
Minister of Tourism
Faction represented in the Knesset
1988–2005National Religious Party
2005–2009Ahi
Personal details
Born (1947-06-06) 6 June 1947 (age 76)
Casablanca, Morocco

Yitzhak Levy (Hebrew: יצחק לוי, born 6 July 1947) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party (NRP) and the Ahi faction of the National Union between 1988 and 2009. Between 1998 and 2002, he was NRP leader, and also held several ministerial portfolios.

Biography

Yitzhak Levy was born in

Yeshivat Hakotel. He served as an officer in the IDF, achieving the rank of major. He was a member of the Bnei Akiva
Executive and World Secretariat, and Secretary-General of the National Religious Movement from 1986 to 1995.

He was the Rabbi of the Bnei Akiva Talmudic College in Kfar Maimon, and was among the initiators of the establishment of the Jewish quarter in Jerusalem, and one of the founders of the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank.[1]

Levy is married, with five children, and lives in Kfar Maimon.[2]

Political career

He was elected to the Knesset in 1988 on the National Religious Party list. He was a member of the House Committee from 1988 to 1996, and the Labor and Social Welfare Committee from 1988 to 1992. He was also chairman the Ethics Committee and the children welfare lobby, as well as the Israel-Argentina Parliamentary Friendship League. Since 1988, he has been a member of the Committee on Constitution, Law, and Justice.[1]

In June 1996, he was appointed

Minister of Religious Affairs, a position he held in rotation.[1]

In July 1999, he was appointed

Minister of Housing and Construction.[1] Following his appointment, he resigned from the Knesset in order to allow the next person on the NRP list, Nahum Langental, to enter the Knesset. In July 2000, following the Camp David Summit, he resigned from the government.[2]

On November 2, 2000, his 28-year-old daughter, Ayelet Hashahar Levy, was killed by a Palestinian car bomb in Jerusalem.[3]

In April 2002, during

disengagement plan.[2] He and Eitam subsequently left the NRP, and founded a new religious-Zionist party, Ahi, which joined the National Union
alliance.

In December 2008, Levy announced that he was retiring from politics, stating that the decision was made due to the new

Jewish Home party not holding traditional primary elections, but instead relying on an internet-based vote.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Yitzhak Levy". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2003-03-31. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  2. ^ a b c "Levi Yitzhak". nfc (in Hebrew). 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  3. ^ "The JPost - Casualties of War". Archived from the original on 2011-01-14. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
  4. ^ NRP's Yitzhak Levy retiring from politics Ynetnews, 12 March 2008

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