Yehuda Glick

Yehuda Glick was born in 1965 in United States

Glick was born on 20 November 1965 in the United States to Brenda and Shimon Glick. His father, a physician and professor, moved the family to Israel in 1974 and helped found the medical school at Ben Gurion University. Glick grew up in Beersheba.

He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and other yeshivas. He holds a bachelor's degree in Bible studies from Jerusalem College of Technology and a master's degree in Jewish history from Touro College. He is also a licensed tour guide.

From 1996 he held several posts at the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, including spokesman for Minister Yuli Edelstein. He resigned in 2005 in protest of the Gaza disengagement plan and became executive director of the Temple Institute until 2009. He then founded groups promoting Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, including the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and HaLiba.

Police banned him from the Temple Mount several times, and he held hunger strikes in protest. On 29 October 2014 he was shot by Mutaz Hijazi, a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and was released from hospital on 24 November. A 2014 charge against him for injuring a Muslim woman was dropped in 2016.

A Likud member since 1997, he entered the Knesset on 23 May 2016 in place of Moshe Ya'alon and served until 2019. Since 2019 he has been president of an organization representing widowed families with young children. His wife Yaffa died in January 2018.