Yehiel Moshe "Hili" Tropper (; born 22 April 1978) is an Israeli educator, social worker and politician. He is currently a member of the
Knesset
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The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supe ...
for
National Unity
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and served as a
minister without portfolio
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Tropper was born in Jerusalem in 1978, one of nine children of Rabbi Daniel Tropper. He attended Horev
yeshiva
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and during his national service in the
Israel Defense Forces
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, he was part of the
Duvdevan Unit
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It is notable for its undercover operations in urban areas, during which its operators often wear civilian clothing t ...
. He became a social worker and earned a BA in humanities from the
Open University
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and an MA in Jewish history and education from the Lander Institute. He worked for the
Bat Yam
Bat Yam ( ) is a city on Israel's Mediterranean Sea coast, on the Central Coastal Plain just south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area and the Tel Aviv District. In , it had a population of .
History
British Mandate
Bat Y ...
municipality and in 2007 also started to run the Branco Weiss school in
Ramle
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The city was founded in the early 8th century CE by the Umayyad caliph Su ...
, where he was the principal for five years.
From 2013 to 2015 Tropper served as senior advisor to Minister of Education
Shai Piron
Shai Moshe Piron (; born 25 January 1965) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, educator, and politician. A religious Zionist,
, and in 2015 he was appointed Director of Education, Culture and Welfare in the
Yeruham
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Until early 2011 th ...
Municipality.
Tropper is married with four children and lives in
Nes Harim
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Political career
Prior to the
2013 Knesset elections
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Tropper was placed twenty-third on the Labor Party list, but the party won only 15 seats. He was subsequently appointed as an advisor to Minister of Education
Shai Piron
Shai Moshe Piron (; born 25 January 1965) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, educator, and politician. A religious Zionist,
. When Piron left the government in 2015, Tropper became Director of the Education, Welfare and Culture Division in
Yeruham
Yeruham () is a local council (Israel), town in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel, in the Negev desert. It covers , and had a population of in . It is named after the Hebrew Bible, Biblical Jeroham.
Until early 2011 th ...
Israel Resilience Party
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The party first ran in the April ...
founded by his friend
Benny Gantz
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Mufid Mari
Mufid Mari (; born 15 May 1959) is an Israeli Druze politician. He was a member in the Knesset for Blue and White from 2021 to 2022.
Biography
Mari was born and raised in Hurfeish, a Druze town in Northern Israel. His older brother, Colonel Nab ...
. Tropper served until the Inauguration of the
Thirty-seventh government of Israel
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on 29 December 2022, and returned to the Knesset as a member of the Opposition
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.
On 12 October 2023, Tropper was sworn in as a
minister without portfolio
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after his party joined the government following the outbreak of the
Gaza war
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.
Tropper resigned from the government in June 2024.