Eli Alaluf

Eli Alaluf was born in 1945 in Fez

Alaluf was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1945, into a large family. He studied at the Alliance Hebrew school and was active in youth movements. He spent a year in Israel with a youth program, then worked at a Jewish orphanage in Casablanca, and immigrated to Israel in 1967.

He studied political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1968 to 1972. From 1968 he ran the French-speaking youth division of the World Zionist Organization for 10 years. At the same time he volunteered for the IDF and served in the Artillery Corps.

From 1978 to 1981 he worked as an aide to minister Yigael Yadin on neighborhood renewal, and later worked for the Jewish Agency. He sat on the Beersheba city council from 1989 to 1992. He was a Keren Hayesod emissary in Switzerland from 1992 to 1995, then led the Rashi Foundation until 2012.

In 2013 he chaired the Alaluf Committee to Fight Poverty. He joined Kulanu in December 2014 and entered the Knesset in 2015, where he chaired the Labor and Welfare Committee. He worked on the immigration of the Falash Mura and on construction safety laws, and did not run again in 2019.

He was married to Gisele and had a son, Yishai. The couple lived in Beersheba for many years and later moved to Ashdod. He died on 8 February 2026 and was buried in Ashdod.