Rabbi Meshulam Nahari ( he, מְשׁוּלָּם נָהָרִי, born 7 May 1951) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (wit ...

for

Shas Shas ( he, ש״ס) is a Haredi religious political party in Israel. Founded in 1984 under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual leader until his death in October 2013, it primarily ...

in two spells between 1999 and 2021.

Biography

Meshullam Nahari was born in Jerusalem to

Yemenite Jewish Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the ...

immigrant parents, and studied in a

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. After his

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, he was ordained as a

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, and also gained a BA from Lifschitz Teaching College. After graduating, he went on to become a headteacher. Nahari is married, with five children, and lives in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

Public service

Nahari served as a consultant to the Deputy Minister of Education and was a member of the Education Ministry directorate. Later he was appointed Director of the ministry's Haredi Culture Department.

Political career

Nahari was first elected to the Knesset in the 1999 elections, and served as Deputy Minister of Education under both

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and

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. He retained his seat in both the 2003 and 2006 elections, and was made a Minister without Portfolio in

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. In September 2006, he was given a position in the Finance Ministry, with responsibilities for education and welfare. After his appointment, he proposed a bill which would require local authorities to fund unrecognised ultra-Orthodox schools, which was passed despite opposition from the

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and the Education Minister

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. Nahari retained his seat again in the 2009 elections, having been placed fifth on the Shas list, and was appointed a Minister without Portfolio again. He was re-elected again in

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, but Shas were excluded from the coalition government. After another re-election in

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, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Welfare and Social Services in the new government formed in May 2015. In January 2016, he was moved to the Deputy Minister of the Interior portfolio. Later in the month, he resigned from the Knesset to allow

Yigal Guetta Nissan Yigal Guetta ( he, ניסן יגאל גואטה, born 18 March 1966) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas between 2016 and 2017. Early life Guetta was born and raised in Kiryat Shmona, where his brother ...

to become an MK, but remained a deputy minister under the Norwegian Law.New Shas MK Yigal Guetta sworn in
The Jerusalem Post, 26 January 2016 Nahari resigned from his position shortly after Guetta's resignation from the Knesset, and returned on 20 September 2017, to his place in the Knesset in accordance to the Norwegian Law, replacing

Danny Saida Dan "Danny" Saida ( he, דן "דני" סיידא, born 26 April 1959) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas in 2017, and again between 2018 and 2019. Background Saida was placed fourteenth on the Shas list for ...

.Gueta is no longer MK: Until Nahari will take his place, Danny Saida is a one-day MK
Channel 10, 19 September 2017 A week later he was reinstated as deputy minister.

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