Yair Chetboun

Yair Chetboun was born in 1982

Yair Chetboun was born on December 28, 1982, to a family of Jewish immigrants from France. His father, Dr. Israel Chetboun, is a cardiologist at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, and his mother Devorah is an optometrist who came from Morocco. As a teenager he studied at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Netanya and at a yeshiva in Jerusalem, then spent about 2 years at the yeshiva in Itamar.

He served in the Duvdevan Unit, completed officers' course and served as a career commander, leaving the IDF as a major. In the reserves he became deputy battalion commander in the Commando Brigade, serving in Judea and Samaria and in the Gaza Strip during the Swords of Iron War.

After the army he studied at the Eli pre-army graduate yeshiva and worked in informal education, helping found the Masa Israeli project. With a bachelor's degree in education, he taught at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Netanya and became deputy principal. He then ran the AMIT Eliraz school in Petah Tikva for 7 years and left to establish the AMIT Bruchin education campus in Samaria.

In 2018 he led a local Jewish Home list in Ariel that won 2 council seats. In 2024 he ran for mayor with a new list, Ariel, The Next Generation, and won the runoff against Oren Hazan with 63.4% of the vote. He is married to Moriah, has 5 children, lives in Ariel, and is the brother of former Knesset member Yoni Chetboun.