David Rotem

David Rotem was born in 1949 in Bnei Brak

Rotem was born in Bnei Brak and grew up in Jerusalem. His father was among the founders of the Poalei Agudat Yisrael party and served as deputy director general of the Interior Ministry.

He attended the Horev religious school and yeshiva high school in Jerusalem, and studied at Bell Lane in London from 1966 to 1967. He then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1967 to 1971.

He worked as an assistant and later a lecturer at the Bar-Ilan University law faculty. He ran a law office in Jerusalem and was legal adviser to the Yesha Council and several regional councils. He also served on the Central Elections Committee for the National Religious Party.

After joining Yisrael Beiteinu in 2005, he entered the Knesset in 2007 and was reelected in 2009 and 2013. He chaired the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and worked on conversion and civil union bills. In 2012 the Knesset Ethics Committee reprimanded him over a remark to MK Zehava Galon.

He announced his retirement from politics in January 2015. He lived in Efrat and died of cardiac arrest on 8 June 2015. He was married to Adina and had 5 children.