Yehuda Gilad

Yehuda Gilad was born in 1955 in Brazil

Yehuda Gilad was born in Brazil in 1955. His father was Rabbi Shmuel Pinchas Gelbard. The family moved to Israel when he was a child.

He studied at the Hayishuv Hehadash, Mercaz HaRav and Har Etzion yeshivas. He was ordained as a rabbi by the Chief Rabbinate and completed teacher training at Herzog College.

He served in the army through the Hesder track as a tank soldier. He later served in the career army as a brigade rabbi.

He became the rabbi of Kibbutz Lavi, and from 1990 to 1992 he was an emissary of the Jewish Agency and Bnei Akiva in London. In 1993 he founded the Maale Gilboa yeshiva with Rabbi Shmuel Reiner, and the two head it. In 2002 he entered the Knesset for Labor-Meimad, sat on the education and labor committees, and left Meimad that December over its alliance with Labor.

Before the elections to the 17th Knesset he was third on the list of Uzi Dayan's Tafnit party, which did not enter the Knesset. He is active in conversion and serves as a judge in the Giyur KeHalacha court at Maale Gilboa. He is the son-in-law of Rabbi Yehuda Amital.