Eliezer Waldman

Eliezer Waldman (Hebrew: אליעזר ולדמן, born February 11, 1937 in Petah Tikva ) is an Israeli rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva and former politician who was 1984-1990 Member for the Techija party in the Knesset.

Life

Waldman was born in 1937 in Petah Tikva, at the time when Palestine was a British mandate. At the age of three years, his parents took him to the United States, where he attended Yeshiva University and Brooklyn College; there, he studied philosophy and psychology. In 1956 he moved to Israel, he became head of Special Yeshiva in Hebron and head of the Jewish settlement in the city in 1972 and was among the founders of the settlement of Kiryat Arba. He was also co-founder of the Gush Emunim movement - as well as the Techija party. In 1984 he was elected on the party list in the Knesset, was re-elected in 1988, but finally put on 31 January 1990 from his office and was replaced by Elyakim Haetzni.