Nissan Slomiansky ( he, ניסן סלומיאנסקי, born 10 January 1946) 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 (with ...

for the

National Religious Party The National Religious Party ( he, מִפְלָגָה דָּתִית לְאֻומִּית, ''Miflaga Datit Leumit'', commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym Mafdal, ) was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist moveme ...

between 1996 and 1999, and again from 2003-2009, and was re-elected again in 2013. He is a member of the

Jewish Home The Jewish Home ( he, הַבַּיִת הַיְהוּדִי, HaBayit HaYehudi) is an Orthodox Jewish and religious Zionist political party in Israel. It was originally formed by a merger of the National Religious Party, Moledet, and Tkuma in ...

party.

Biography

Slomiansky was born in

Ramat Gan Ramat Gan ( he, רָמַת גַּן or , ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of Tel Aviv and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, and man ...

during the Mandate era in the family, who migrated from the Second Polish Republic. He was educated at

Bnei Akiva Bnei Akiva ( he, בְּנֵי עֲקִיבָא, , "Children of Akiva") is the largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world, with over 125,000 members in 42 countries. It was first established in Mandatory Palestine in 1929. History B ...

yeshiva A yeshiva (; he, ישיבה, , sitting; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are st ...

in Nechalim, and completed academic studies in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

and mathematics at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academi ...

. He also studied in the Hesder Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, where he was certified as a teacher and ordained as a

Rabbi A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as ''semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of ...

. After his studies, he enlisted to the Nahal Paratroopers unit and reached the rank of first lieutenant. Thereafter, he turned to politics, serving for more than two decades (1977-1998) as the first head of Elkana local council. He was also the secretary-general of

Gush Emunim Gush Emunim ( he, גּוּשׁ אֱמוּנִים , ''Bloc of the Faithful'') was an Israeli ultranationalist Orthodox Jewish right-wing activist movement committed to establishing Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Gol ...

. In the 1996 elections, Slomiansky was placed 10th on the National Religious Party's list of candidates. He entered the Knesset in May 1997, following the death of Avraham Stern. He lost his seat in the 1999 elections, but regained it in 2003 when he was placed sixth on the party's list of candidates. He was later re-elected to the Seventeenth Knesset in 2006. During this period, he set a record for being the only member of Knesset to be present for 100% of the meetings and votes; likewise, he was known for being an extremely prolific legislator. Slomiansky headed the parliamentary lobby for elderly persons during the Sixteenth Knesset. Since 2003, he is serving as the party's group chairperson at the Knesset, holding this position during the party's split on the background of the disengagement plan. For the 2009 elections, he won a fourth place on the Jewish Home list, but lost his seat when the party won only three seats. In the 2013 election, he was placed third on the Jewish Home list and was re-elected to Knesset. In 2011, he was appointed Vice President of the Lander Institute, replacing Reserves General Y. Amidror, who was appointed to the Chief of Staff of the National Security Institute. Following allegations of sexual misconduct, in December 2016, Slomiansky suspended himself from the chairmanship of the Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee.

Family

Slomiansky is married, and a father of five children.Profile
baityehudi.org.il; accessed 31 July 2015.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Slomiansky, Nissan 1946 births Living people Bar-Ilan University alumni Israeli Orthodox Jews Israeli physicists Jewish physicists Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Members of the 14th Knesset (1996–1999) Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006) Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009) Members of the 19th Knesset (2013–2015) Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019) National Religious Party politicians People from Ramat Gan The Jewish Home politicians