Nir Orbach

Nir Orbach was born in 1970 in Haifa

Nir Orbach was born on 6 April 1970 in Haifa and grew up in Kiryat Shmuel. He studied at the Pirchei Aharon yeshiva and at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. He later studied law at Bar-Ilan University and is a lawyer by training.

He served in the Tzabar Battalion of the Givati Brigade. He ran Midreshet Tel Aviv and founded and headed a forum of Torah study programs for women. He advised Effi Eitam and Nissan Slomiansky and was director general of the Ahi party.

Before the 2013 elections he was Naftali Bennett's chief of staff and became secretary general and later director general of the Jewish Home. He ran on its list in 2015 but was not elected. In 2021 he lost the party leadership race to Hagit Moshe and moved to Yamina.

He entered the Knesset in 2021 and chaired the Knesset Committee. He voted for the Bennett-Lapid government despite protests near his home. In June 2022 he left the coalition, which dropped to 59 seats, and in September 2022 he announced he was leaving politics.

In July 2023 he was appointed head of the Jewish Identity Authority in the Prime Minister's Office. He is married to Meirav, and they have 4 children. They live in Petah Tikva.