Ya'akov Mizrahi

Ya'akov Mizrahi was born in 1919 in Rehovot

Mizrahi was born in 1919 in Sha'arayim, later a neighborhood of Rehovot, to a family from Yemen. His father, Rabbi David Mizrahi, headed a rabbinical court in Rehovot and was killed in bombings during the War of Independence. Mizrahi held rabbinic ordination.

From the British Mandate period he worked among Jews from Middle Eastern communities, and after the War of Independence he was active in the transit camps. In 1956 he became head of the Agudat Yisrael department for these communities. He helped enroll students in religious schools and later helped found schools.

He served on the Rehovot city council for Agudat Yisrael and in 1969 became deputy mayor in charge of welfare. In November 1972 he entered the Knesset in place of Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross under a rotation agreement. He lost his seat in the 1973 elections, the year his son David was killed in the Yom Kippur War.

In 1976 he led the Middle Eastern communities faction in internal Agudat Yisrael elections. He fell ill while traveling to Jerusalem and died on 13 August 1980. His son Eliezer later also served in the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael.