Hillel Horowitz

Hillel Horowitz was born in 1964 in Ashkelon

Hillel Ilan Horowitz was born in Ashkelon on 31 March 1964 to Rabbi Shalom and Zelda. He grew up in Merkaz Shapira and later lived in the Jewish community in Hebron. He studied at Yeshivat Or Etzion, the Beit El yeshiva and Mercaz HaRav, where Rabbi Avraham Shapira ordained him as a rabbi.

After the military rabbi course in 1987, he joined the Military Rabbinate and became rabbi of the Givati Brigade. He holds an MBA from Ono Academic College. In 1990 he began teaching at the hesder yeshiva in Kiryat Arba.

From 1992 he directed the Jewish community in Hebron and promoted a project bringing students to visit Hebron. He was a senior adviser at the Education Ministry in 2003 and 2004. In 2010 Nazareth Illit mayor Shimon Gapso appointed him as an adviser on Jewish settlement in the city.

He was 13th on the Jewish Home list in 2013, and the party won 12 seats. He entered the Knesset on 16 February 2015 after the death of Uri Orbach, and lost the seat in the March 2015 elections. In 2013 he founded the Yachad Fund, and he headed the Hebron municipal committee from 2017.

He is married to Naomi, an educational counselor, and is a father of 9. He lives in north Tel Aviv.