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Meshulam Nahari

Meshulam Nahari is an Israeli rabbi and Shas politician who served in the Knesset between 1999 and 2021 and was a minister without portfolio from 2006 to 2009.

born 1951Shas Knesset memberThe Nahari Law on school fundingMinister without portfolio

Born: 7 May 1951, Jerusalem
Occupation: politician, rabbi
Party: Shas
Education: Lifshitz College of Education

Meshulam Nahari was born in 1951 in Jerusalem

Nahari was born in Jerusalem on 7 May 1951. His parents, Naomi and Rabbi Yahya, were immigrants from Yemen.

He studied at the Tiferet Zvi yeshiva and at the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he was ordained as a rabbi. He also earned a teaching degree from Lifschitz College and later worked as a school principal.

In the Education Ministry he sat on the ministry's directorate and headed its Haredi Culture Department. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1999 and served as Deputy Minister of Education. In 2006 he became a minister without portfolio, working in the Finance Ministry, and initiated a law requiring local authorities to fund unofficial recognized schools.

From 2015 he served as a deputy minister of welfare and then of the interior. He left the Knesset in 2016 under the Norwegian Law and returned in 2017. He did not run in the 2021 election and left the Knesset.

He is married to Rivka, has 5 children, and lives in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem.