Meir Porush

Meir Porush (Hebrew מאיר פרוש; born June 11, 1955 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli rabbi and politician ( Agudat Jisra'el / United Torah Judaism ). He was from 1996 to 2011 a member of the Knesset, and has been back in 2013. From 1996 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2003 he was Deputy Minister of Construction, 2009-2011 Deputy Minister of Education.

Life

Poruschs father was the rabbi Menachem Porush (1916-2010), one of the longest serving members of the Knesset. Porush was young in a yeshiva. After thirteen years of membership in the city council of Jerusalem ( Deputy Mayor temporarily ), he moved in 1996 as a candidate for Agudat Yisrael on the list of United Torah Judaism in the Knesset and served as Deputy Minister of Housing under Benjamin Netanjahu.1999 he retained his seat in the Knesset after the elections, but resigned from the Cabinet. After Ariel Sharon won the election for Prime Minister in 2001, Porush was appointed Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing. In 2003 and 2006 drew Porush again in the Knesset, but was not given a cabinet post. Porush came on in the election for mayor of Jerusalem in 2008, but lost to the secular politicians Nir Barkat. In 2009 he was again elected to the Knesset and Deputy Minister of Education. In 2011 he gave up both offices under a rotation agreement, but moved in the elections in 2013 again entered parliament.

Porush lives with his wife and twelve children in Jerusalem.