Meshulam Nahari | |
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מְשׁוּלָּם נָהָרִי | |
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| Ministerial roles | |
| 2006–2013 | Minister without Portfolio |
| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 1999–2016 | Shas |
| 2017–2020 | Shas |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1951-05-07)7 May 1951 (age 74) Jerusalem, Israel |
RabbiMeshulam Nahari (Hebrew:מְשׁוּלָּם נָהָרִי; born 7 May 1951) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of theKnesset forShas in two spells between 1999 and 2021.
Meshullam Nahari was born in Jerusalem toYemenite Jewish immigrant parents, and studied in ayeshiva. After hisnational service, he was ordained as arabbi, and also gained a BA from Lifschitz Teaching College. After graduating, he went on to become a headteacher. Nahari is married, with five children, and lives inJerusalem.[1]
Nahari served as a consultant to the Deputy Minister of Education and was a member of the Education Ministry directorate. Later he was appointed Director of the ministry's Haredi Culture Department.
Nahari was first elected to the Knesset in the1999 elections, and served as Deputy Minister of Education under bothEhud Barak andAriel Sharon.
He retained his seat in both the 2003 and2006 elections, and was made a Minister without Portfolio inEhud Olmert'sgovernment. In September 2006, he was given a position in the Finance Ministry, with responsibilities for education and welfare.[2] After his appointment, he proposed a bill which would require local authorities to fund unrecognised ultra-Orthodox schools, which was passed despite opposition from theAttorney General and theEducation MinisterYuli Tamir.[3]
Nahari retained his seat again in the2009 elections, having been placed fifth on the Shas list, and was appointed a Minister without Portfolio again. He was re-elected again in2013, but Shas were excluded from the coalition government. After another re-election in2015, he was appointed DeputyMinister of Welfare and Social Services in thenew government formed in May 2015. In January 2016, he was moved to the Deputy Minister of the Interior portfolio. Later in the month, he resigned from the Knesset to allowYigal Guetta to become an MK, but remained a deputy minister under theNorwegian Law.[4] Nahari resigned from his position shortly after Guetta's resignation from the Knesset, and returned on 20 September 2017, to his place in the Knesset in accordance to the Norwegian Law, replacingDanny Saida.[5] A week later he was reinstated as deputy minister.
