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Uri Maklev | |
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אוּרִי מַקְלֵב | |
 Uri Maklev in 2021 | |
| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 2008 | United Torah Judaism |
| 2008–2009 | Degel HaTorah |
| 2009–2019 | United Torah Judaism |
| 2019 | Degel HaTorah |
| 2019–2020 | United Torah Judaism |
| 2021 | United Torah Judaism |
| 2022– | United Torah Judaism |
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| Born | (1957-01-10)10 January 1957 (age 68) Bnei Brak,Israel |
| Spouse | Hana |
| Children | 5 |
RabbiYisrael Meir Uri Maklev (Hebrew:יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאִיר אוּרִי מַקְלֵב; born 10 January 1957) is an Ashkenazi Israeli politician. He served as Deputy Minister of Transportation and Road Safety and was previously a member of theKnesset for theHaredi partyDegel HaTorah, which together withAgudat Yisrael forms theUnited Torah Judaism list.[1]
Maklev, a graduate of bothKol HaTorah Yeshiva andPonivezh Yeshiva, served as a member of Jerusalem City Council and as DeputyMayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2008. In this position, he was a member of the municipality's executive, holding the education portfolio and sitting on the finance and education committees. He was also a member of the local planning and construction committee, and the municipality's representative to Jerusalem's Sewage and Water Corporation.
On 31 July 2008, Maklev entered the Knesset on the basis of an internal party rotation agreement. Upon his entry, Degel HaTorah had three seats for the first time in its history. He retained his seat in the2009 elections, after being placed fourth on the alliance's list. He was attacked inMea Shearim on 24 June 2010 as he emerged from a synagogue. He andMoshe Gafni had paid a visit to theSlonim rabbi, who lives in that neighborhood, and then entered a synagogue to pray. When they emerged, they were set upon by young extremists fromNeturei Karta who spat at them and assaulted them with stones, blows, and a chair.[2]
He was re-elected in2013,2015,April 2019,2019, and2020. In May 2020, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Transportation and Road Safety. He subsequently resigned from the Knesset under theNorwegian Law, and was replaced byEliyahu Baruchi.
He is married, with five children, and lives in Jerusalem.[3]
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