Yaron Mazuz

Yaron Mazuz was born in 1962 in Haifa

Mazuz was born in Haifa in 1962 to a family of immigrants from Tunisia. His father was a civilian employee of the IDF and his mother was a mikveh attendant. The family moved to Kiryat Bialik when he was 6.

He studied at a Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kiryat Shmuel and at a vocational school in Kiryat Ata. He served in the IDF Ordnance Corps from 1980 to 1983. He then went into business and owned produce shops, fish and nut shops and grocery stores.

In 2008 he was elected to the Kiryat Bialik city council at the head of a local faction he founded. After the 2013 elections he became unpaid deputy mayor. He chaired the council committee on the city's appearance and the environment.

He entered the Knesset for Likud in 2015 and became Deputy Interior Minister. In June 2015 he told Arab members of the Knesset to give up their citizenship and refused to apologize. In 2016 he became Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and later Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection, where he handled pollution in Haifa Bay.

He was placed 48th on the Likud list in 2019 and did not return to the Knesset. He later became an adviser to Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David. He is married to Yafa, has 3 children and lives in Kiryat Bialik.