Moshe Tur-Paz

Moshe Tur-Paz was born in 1972 in Philadelphia

Moshe Tur-Paz was born in Philadelphia in 1972, while his parents were working in the United States for the Jewish Agency. The family returned to Israel a year later. He grew up in Haifa and Jerusalem and spent part of his childhood in London.

He studied at the Neve Shmuel Yeshiva and Yeshivat Har Etzion. He earned a bachelor's degree in Jewish thought and the Bible and a master's degree in Jewish history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He served in the Paratroopers Brigade and later reached the reserve rank of lieutenant colonel. In the Swords of Iron war he served in the reserves in the Gaza Division.

He was deputy principal of the Pelech school and ran the Shaked school in Sde Eliyahu from 2007 to 2012. From 2012 to 2017 he headed education for the Jerusalem municipality, then led the education network of the Religious Kibbutz Movement. In 2019 he published a book on Israel's education system.

He joined Yesh Atid and entered the Knesset in January 2021, and again in July 2021 under the Norwegian law. He was elected in 2022 and served as a deputy speaker of the Knesset. He lives in Kfar Etzion and is married with 5 children.