Politicsישראל אייכלר

Israel Eichler

Yisrael Eichler is an Israeli Haredi journalist and politician who served several terms as a Knesset member for Agudat Yisrael within United Torah Judaism.

born 1955Knesset member for United Torah JudaismEditing HaMahane HaHarediBelz Hasidic public activism

Born: 27 March 1955, Jerusalem
Occupation: journalist, politician, writer, newspaper editor
Party: Union of Israel

Israel Eichler was born in 1955 in Jerusalem

Eichler was born in Jerusalem in 1955 to a family that came from Hungary. His father, Menashe Eichler, founded the ZAKA organization with Shlomo Eisenbach and had been active in Lehi. He studied in Belz Hasidic institutions.

From 1980 he edited the Belz weekly HaMahane HaHaredi and wrote a regular column in the weekly Mishpacha. He hosted a daily current affairs program on Kol Chai radio and appeared on television panels such as Popolitika. He heads the Centre for Jewish Publicity.

He entered the Knesset in 2003 for United Torah Judaism and resigned in February 2005 under a rotation deal. He returned on 6 February 2011 in place of Meir Porush and was reelected in later elections. From 2017 he served as a deputy speaker of the Knesset.

He chaired the Labor and Welfare Committee and resigned from that post on 15 July 2025 as Agudat Yisrael left the coalition. On 19 January 2026 he became deputy communications minister and resigned from the Knesset. He is married, has 14 children and lives in Jerusalem.