David Glass

David Glass was born in 1936 in Balfouria

David Glass was born in 1936 in Balfouria, a moshav in the Jezreel Valley. He studied at Midreshet Noam from 1950 to 1953 and at the Slonim yeshiva in Ramat Gan in 1954.

From 1954 to 1957 he served in the IDF as a military reporter. He earned a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1970 and became a lawyer in 1977.

He held several posts in the Ministry of Religious Affairs and was its director general from 1974 to 1977. He co-edited a book on religion and state law, published in 1973. From 1977 he was a senior partner in a law firm.

He chaired the Jerusalem branch of the National Religious Party and was elected to the Knesset in 1977, where he chaired the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. He lost his seat in 1981. In 1984 he left the party and joined Labor, and later became a legal adviser and confidant of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Shas.

He supported withdrawal from the territories and compromise with the Palestinians, and was a member of the Geneva Initiative council. He was married with 2 children and died on 16 August 2014.