Shmuel Halpert

Shmuel Halpert

MKs


Date of birth = 5 February 1939
Year of Aliyah = 1960
Date of death =
Knesset(s) = 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th,
16th, 17th (current)
Party = Agudat Yisrael
(part of United Torah Judaism)
Former parties =
Gov't roles =

Rabbi Shmuel Halpert ( _he. שמואל הלפרט, born 5 February 1939) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for the ultra-orthodox party Agudat Yisrael (in which he represents the Vizhnitz Hasidim), [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=680571 NRP, National Union agree on merged Knesset list] Haaretz, 9 February 2006] part of the United Torah Judaism alliance. He is also a member of the party's central committee and a member of the executive of World Agudat Israel.

Born in Romania in 1939, Halpert is the grandson of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvirna and Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov of Khust. He studied at the Vyzhnytsia Institute of Talmudic Studies, and was ordained as a rabbi. He made aliyah in 1960.

Halpert was first elected to the Knesset in the 1981 elections on the Agudat Israel list. However, he lost his seat in the next elections in 1984.

He re-entered the Knesset after the 1988 elections, and was appointed Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office in November 1990. In June 1991 he became Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare.

For the 1992 elections, Agudat Israel formed an alliancewith Degel HaTorah, which included a seat rotation agreement. Halpert was elected to the Knesset, but served only half a term (until 1994) as part of the arrangement). He retained his seat served full terms after the 1996 and 1999 elections, but lost it in the 2003 elections. However, after United Torah Judaism split towards the end of the Knesset term in 2005 Israel Eichler resigned as an MK and was replaced by Halpert as part of another rotation agreement. Halpert was also appointed Deputy Minister of Transportation.

For the 2006 elections the alliance was reformed and Halpert was elected to the Knesset on the UTJ list. Like many other religious politicians in Israel he objected to the 2006 Jerusalem gay pride parade, asking "Have we become like Sodom? Let go of this ugliness. It will oust the divine presence." [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=734658 Shas MK: Gay pride parade a 'parade of swine on Temple Mount'] Haaretz, 5 July 2006] He has also caused controversy by admitting to hitting his children during a Knesset committee meeting [ [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378431390&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull 'Corporal punishment is educational'] Jerusalem Post, 19 November 2006] and calling for the separation of the sexes in the Western Wall plaza. [ [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395572095&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter Haredim propose Kotel entry separation] Jerusalem Post, 9 March 2006]

References

External links

* [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=43 Shmuel Halpert on the Knesset website (in English)]


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