Zevulun Orlev

Zebulun Orlew (Hebrew זבולון אורלב; born November 9, 1945 in Rehovot ) is a nationalist Israeli politician who served as Member of the National Religious Party on March 3, 2003 to November 11, 2004 Minister of Welfare and Social Services and 2005-2008 Party Leader of the National Religious Party.

Life

Orlew is considered a war hero, who was honored for his achievements in the Yom Kippur War with the Itur ha - Mofet. He came in the 1999 elections as Member of the National Religious Party in the Knesset. After he was re-elected in the 2003 elections, Orlew was appointed Minister of Welfare and Social Services in the second government of Ariel Sharon.

When the coalition threatened to break because of the Gaza withdrawal plan, Orlew headed the warehouse within the national-religious party that endorsed this plan. Then called him the party chairman Ephraim Eitam a " Meimadnik ". After Eitam and Yitzhak Levy 2004, the government left to Orlew and other party members to leave the government refused. Orlew was then party chairman of the National Religious Party. Former party chairman Eitam and Levy left the party and founded the Achi, which eventually went along with the National Union.

In the 2006 elections he was re-elected. Before the elections of 2009, the National Religious Party broke up, and the party members went to HaBajit haJehudi. Orlew was set to # 2 on the dial list and received again his seat in the Knesset.

Orlew is known for several controversial statements and legislative initiatives. So discussed the Knesset in 2009 a legislative initiative of Orlew, after which everyone needs to be prosecuted with Strafverfolgtung who deny that Israel is a Jewish and democratic state (Hebrew מדינה יהודית ודמוקרטית ). The proposed legislation was not immediately rejected and passed the preliminary reading. Orlew was criticized for a legislative proposal that divorced fathers should pay for their children's upkeep until they have reached the age of 22.

In 2012, he called for the construction of the third temple in Jerusalem. He also called for legislation that would protect the building project from prosecution and the "hostile, secular, left-wing " media.

He also called for a legislative initiative to disregard the decision of the Supreme Court, which ordered the demolition of five buildings of a Jewish settlement.