Politicsמנחם אליעזר מוזס

Eliezer Moses

Menachem Eliezer Moses is an Israeli politician who served as a Knesset member for United Torah Judaism from 2009 to 2019 and as Deputy Minister of Education from 2011 to 2013.

born 1946United Torah Judaism Knesset memberDeputy Minister of EducationVizhnitz Hasidic community activism

Born: 20 October 1946, Israel
Occupation: politician
Party: Union of Israel

Eliezer Moses was born in 1946 in Israel

Moses was born in Jerusalem on 20 October 1946. He was the only son of Shlomo Zalman Moses, secretary of World Agudat Yisrael and the Council of Torah Sages. He studied at the Vizhnitz yeshiva.

He served in the IDF Adjutant Corps. After his marriage he became the gabbai of Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager, the Vizhnitz Rebbe. In the 1980s he grew close to the Belz Hasidic court and ran its nursing home.

In 1989 he became deputy director general of the Ministry of Education, in charge of Haredi education. Later he was involved in building homes for Haredim in Beit Shemesh and Ashdod. In 2007 he founded a construction company.

He failed to enter the Knesset in 2006 but won a seat in 2009 and chaired the party's Knesset faction. In February 2011 he became Deputy Minister of Education, replacing Meir Porush. In 2017 he was ordered to pay 2 million shekels over debts of his former company, and he left the Knesset in 2019.

Moses lives in Jerusalem and is married to Hannah, with 10 children. In August 2025 he was injured by an electric bicycle rider.