Yosef Taieb ( he, יוֹסֵף טָיֶיבּ, born 15 February 1981) is an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for

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Biography

Taieb was born in the

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to parents of

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descent. He

emigrated Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

to Israel at the age of 17 to study in the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. During his national service in the

Israel Defence Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

, he served in the

Givati Brigade The 84th "Givati" Brigade ( he, חֲטִיבַת גִּבְעָתִי, , "Hill Brigade" or "Highland Brigade") is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade. Until 2005, the Brigade used to be stationed within the Gaza Strip and primarily per ...

.French-born rabbi sworn in to Knesset
''The Jerusalem Post'', 1 July 2020 Between 2006 and 2008 he worked in

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as a community rabbi.Yosef Taieb: Public Activities
Knesset After returning to Israel, he managed projects for French immigrants run by the Wolfson Foundation from 2009 to 2020. Taieb was elected to the municipal council of

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. In 2018 he became deputy mayor of the council. He was placed fifteenth on the Shas list for the April 2019 elections, but the party won only eight seats. He was placed twelfth for the September 2019 elections, in which Shas won nine seats. Although he missed out again in the March 2020 elections in which he was placed eleventh and Shas again won nine seats, he entered the Knesset on 1 July 2020 as a replacement for Yoav Ben-Tzur, who had resigned his seat under the

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after being appointed to the cabinet. Placed tenth on the Shas list for the March 2021 elections, he lost his seat as the party won nine seats. He regained his seat when

Aryeh Deri Aryeh Makhlouf Deri (, ), also Arie Deri, Arye Deri, or Arieh Deri (born 17 February 1959), is an Israeli politician. He is one of the founders of the Shas political party, and has served as Israel's Minister of the Interior, Minister of the D ...

resigned his own seat under the

; he left the Knesset again when Deri returned to the legislature after losing his ministerial position. When Deri resigned from the Knesset in January 2022, Taieb returned for a third spell.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taieb, Yosef 1981 births Living people French emigrants to Israel 21st-century French rabbis French Orthodox rabbis Clergy from Toulouse Israeli Orthodox rabbis Israeli people of French-Jewish descent Members of the 23rd Knesset (2020–2021) Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022) Members of the 25th Knesset (2022–) Politicians from Paris Rabbinic members of the Knesset Shas politicians