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Yigal Bibi

Yigal Bibi is an Israeli politician who was mayor of Tiberias from 1978 to 1988 and a Knesset member for the National Religious Party from 1988 to 2003.

born 1942Mayor of TiberiasNational Religious Party Knesset memberLaws banning TV pornography broadcasts

Born: 21 January 1942, Tiberias
Occupation: politician
Party: National Religious Party
Education: Bar-Ilan University

Yigal Bibi was born in 1942 in Tiberias

Yigal Bibi was born in Tiberias on 21 January 1942. He studied at Bnei Akiva yeshivas and later earned a BA in political science and Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. From 1963 to 1966 he ran the Bnei Akiva branch in Tiberias, and he worked as a teacher.

He joined the Tiberias city council in 1969 for the National Religious Party and served as a deputy mayor. In 1978 he was elected mayor, and he was reelected in 1983. He lost the 1988 race to his deputy, Yosef Peretz, and was also deputy chairman of the Union of Local Authorities.

Bibi entered the Knesset in 1988 and served until 2003. He was Deputy Minister of the Environment from 1990 to 1992 and Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs between 1996 and 2000, and he chaired the party's Knesset faction. He initiated two laws banning pornographic broadcasts on television, passed in 2001 and 2002.

He lost his seat in 2003 after being placed eighth on the party list. He later left the National Religious Party and backed Shas, and in 2021 he supported the Religious Zionism list.