Moshe Tur-Paz | |
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משה יהודה טור-פז | |
 Moshe Tur-Paz in 2022 | |
| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 2020–2021 | Yesh Atid |
| 2021– | Yesh Atid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-04-29)29 April 1972 (age 52) Philadelphia, United States |
| Alma mater | Yeshivat Har Etzion Neve Shmuel Yeshiva |
Moshe Yehuda Tur-Paz (Hebrew:משה יהודה טור-פז; born 29 April 1972) is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as a member of theKnesset forYesh Atid.
Tur-Paz was born inPhiladelphia in 1972. His parents were British immigrants to Israel in the 1950s, and were working in the United States for theJewish Agency.[1] The family returned to Israel the following year, and he grew up inHaifa andJerusalem, as well as spending part of his childhood in the United Kingdom.[1][2] He was educated at the Neve Shmuel Yeshiva andYeshivat Har Etzion,[2] and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in Jewish thought and the Bible and a master's degree in Jewish history at theHebrew University of Jerusalem. After serving as deputy headmaster of thePelech school, he managed the Shaked secondary school inSde Eliyahu from 2007 to 2012. In 2012 he was appointed Director of Education of Jerusalem municipality, a role he held until 2017. He subsequently became director of the education network of theReligious Kibbutz Movement.
A member ofYesh Atid, he was placed forty-second on theBlue and White list for theApril 2019 elections,[3] in which it won 35 seats. He was given the same slot for theSeptember 2019 andMarch 2020 elections.[4][5] Although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset in January 2021 as a replacement for formerBlue and White MKEinav Kabla.[1] He was placed twenty-first on the Yesh Atid list for theMarch 2021 elections, losing his seat as Yesh Atid won seventeen seats. However, in July 2021 he entered the Knesset after Equality MinisterMeirav Cohen resigned her seat under theNorwegian law.[6]
Tur-Paz lives in theKfar Etzion settlement, and is married with five children.[7]
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