Eliyahu Hasid

Eliyahu Hasid was born in 1976 in Bnei Brak

Eliyahu Hasid was born on 12 November 1976 in Bnei Brak. His father, Nachum Hasid, was a Gur Hasid, and his brother Zvi Hasid heads ZAKA Tel Aviv. He studied at the Nezer Israel and Chidushei HaRim yeshivas, and after his marriage he studied for several years in a kollel.

Before entering politics, he ran the Imrei Emet yeshiva and kollel. He serves as gabbai of a Gur synagogue in Bnei Brak and helped found a day club for seniors. In early 2019 he ran a crowdfunding campaign for the Gur Hasidic movement.

He was ninth on the United Torah Judaism list in the April 2019, September 2019 and March 2020 elections, as a representative of Agudat Yisrael. He entered the Knesset on 24 June 2020, replacing Yaakov Litzman under the Norwegian Law. He sat on the Labor and Welfare Committee and other committees, and resigned on 12 October 2020 after Litzman left the government.

He was not placed on the list for the elections to the 24th Knesset. He now heads the Imrei Emet yeshiva of the Gur Hasidim in Bnei Brak.