Yair Levy

Yair Levy (Hebrew: יאיר לוי, born 11 October 1952) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas between 1988 and 1992.

Yair Levy
Date of birth (1952-10-11) 11 October 1952
Place of birthTiberias, Israel
Knessets12
Faction represented in Knesset
1988–1992Shas

Biography

Born in Tiberias in 1952, Levy attended a rabbinical seminary, and was certified as a rabbi. During his national service in the IDF, he was a camp commander in the Oded Brigade and was injured during the Yom Kippur War.

He joined the Shas party during the 1980s, and served as its secretary and secretary of its schooling system. He was elected to the Knesset on the party's list in 1988, but lost his seat in the 1992 elections. In 1993, he was jailed for five years for embezzling NIS 500,000 from the party's El HaMa'ayan organisation.[1]

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See also

References

  1. Yair Levy must stay in jail, panel rules The Jerusalem Post, 1 December 1994
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