Zevulun Orlev
Zevulun Orlev | |
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Minister of Welfare & Social Services | |
Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1999–2009 | National Religious Party |
2009–2013 | The Jewish Home |
Personal details | |
Born | Rehovot, Mandatory Palestine | 9 November 1945
Zevulun Orlev (
Biography
Zvulun Orlev was born in
Military career
During his national service in the
Public service
Orlev worked as Director General of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Director General of the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Political career
He was first elected to the Knesset in the
Orlev was re-elected in the 2006 elections. Prior to the 2009 elections the NRP was dissolved and its members joined the Jewish Home. Orlev won second place on the new party's list, and retained his seat in the subsequent elections.
In 2009 Orlev sponsored a Private member's bill that called for a years imprisonment for any person who denied Israel to be a Jewish and democratic state, a law that would have criminalized calls by members of the Arab minority for Israel to be a state for all its citizens. The bill was castigated as racist and discriminatory, and a media outcry following the bill passing its first reading in the Knesset led to the bill ultimately being defeated. The bill was criticized as an exercise in thought police and as being an assault on freedom of speech, and called "racist and fascist" by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel. The Mossawa Center described the bill as "discriminatory and racist".[2][3][4][5] Uri Avnery placed the bill in the context as being one in a series of racist laws, writing that it "does not stand out at all in today’s political landscape", describing Orlev's Jewish Home party as "ultra-ultra-ultra racist" and trying to outdo the other right-wing parties.[6]
Orlev was criticized for proposing a bill that would mandate divorced fathers to pay child support until their children reached age 22, though he later retracted and stated he would not pursue the bill.[7]
In 2012, he called for the Third Temple to be built in Jerusalem, as well as legislation to protect the project from prosecution and the "hostile, secular, left-wing media".[8] He also proposed a Private Members Bill to override an Israeli Supreme Court ruling ordering the demolition five buildings in an Israeli settlement.[9]
Orlev announced that he would retire from politics after he ran unsuccessfully in the 2012 The Jewish Home leadership election.[10] Orlev did not run in the 2013 elections.
He is a co-president of the international Mizrachi movement, which the National Religious Party and its successor Jewish Home represents in the political arena.[11]
References
- ^ "Yom Kippur War: Medal of Distinguished Service (in Hebrew)". IDF.
- ISBN 978-1-107-37678-6. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- ^ "Knesset Okays Initial Bill to Outlaw Denial of 'Jewish State'". Haaretz. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- S2CID 145591627.
- ^ Macintyre, Donald (29 May 2009). "Threat of the 'thought police' alarms Israel's Arab minority". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- ^ Avnery, Uri (25 June 2009). "Uri Avnery · One Foot on the Moon: Israel's Racist Laws · LRB 25 June 2009". London Review of Books. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- ^ "Dads Confront MK Orlev Over 'Radical Feminism'". Arutz Sheva.
- ^ "Jewish Home MK calls for a Third Temple in Jerusalem". The Times of Israel.
- ^ "PM pushes off bill to bypass Supreme Court on Ulpana demolition". The Times of Israel.
- ^ "Naftali Bennett Wins Bayit Yehudi Vote, Orlev Quits Politics". The Jewish Press News. 6 November 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ World Mizrachi Movement Office Bearers Archived 7 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Zevulun Orlev on the Knesset website
Media related to Zevulun Orlev at Wikimedia Commons