Member of the 26th Knesset
Yehuda Weisfish
Elected from United Torah Judaism, place 7· New to the Knesset
Biography
- Age
- 41
- Before politics
- Born in 1985 in Ashkelon to a Haredi-Lithuanian family; studied at the Grodno yeshiva in Be'er Ya'akov; lives in Modi'in Illit
- Public roles
- Founder, chair and CEO of the Ichud Bnei HaYeshivot organization (since 2014); Degel HaTorah candidate for the 26th Knesset (seventh place on the United Torah Judaism list)
- Milestones
- Considered a central figure in the Lithuanian yeshiva world in welfare and mental resilience for Haredi youth; the organization he founded operates about 358 branches around the country and runs an official youth movement