Yaron Mazuz ( he, ירון מזוז, born 11 July 1962) is an Israeli politician who 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

Likud Likud ( he, הַלִּיכּוּד, HaLikud, The Consolidation), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major centre-right to right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel S ...

between 2015 and 2019. He previously served as Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection.

Biography

Mazuz was born in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

to parents who had immigrated from

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. He was elected to Kiryat Bialik City Council in 2008, and served as the city's Deputy Mayor. Prior to the 2015 elections he was placed 29th on the Likud list, and was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats. On 14 June he was appointed Deputy Interior Minister in the new government. In June 2015 he told

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MKs “We are doing you people a favor by even allowing you to be seated here – terrorists won't be allowed to sit here,” and asked them to give up their Israeli citizenship. Several left-wing members of Knesset demanded an apology from Mazuz, but he refused to retract his statement, adding that the proposal to revoke the ban on citizenship for Palestinians was “written in blood.” In January 2016 Mazuz was replaced as Deputy Interior Minister by Meshulam Nahari, and given the post of Deputy

Minister in the Prime Minister's Office A Minister in the Prime Minister's Office ( he, שר במשרד ראש הממשלה, ''Sar BeMisrad Rosh HaMemshala'') is a minister and member of the Cabinet of Israel appointed by the Prime Minister of Israel to handle various issues on behalf o ...

. In August 2016 he was transferred to become Minister of Environmental Protection. He lost his seat in the April 2019 elections after only being placed forty-eighth on the Likud list. Mazuz is married with three children, and lives in Kiryat Bialik.Meet the New MK: Yaron Mazuz
The Jerusalem Post, 16 April 2015

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazuz, Yaron 1962 births Living people Deputy mayors of places in Israel Deputy ministers of Israel Israeli Jews Israeli people of Tunisian-Jewish descent Jewish Israeli politicians Likud politicians Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019) Politicians from Haifa