Zvulun Kalfa

Zvulun Kalfa was born in 1962 in Beersheba

Zvulun Kalfa was born in Beersheba in 1962 and grew up in the moshav of Sharsheret. His father, Shimon Kalfa, later headed the Azata Regional Council.

He studied at the yeshiva high school in Kfar Maimon, at the hesder yeshiva in Yamit and at Yeshivat HaKotel. When Yamit was evacuated under the peace treaty with Egypt, he took part in the struggle against the evacuation and then helped reestablish the yeshiva in Neve Dekalim. He later studied at Merkaz HaRav and served in the IDF.

Kalfa ran a boarding school in Kfar Maimon and a midrasha in Itamar. He then moved to Atzmona, served as secretary of Atzmona and Netzarim, and was a member of the Hof Aza Regional Council. Before the 2005 disengagement he led protests against the plan, and afterward he helped found the City of Faith near Netivot and initiated the purchase of Kibbutz Shomria for the evacuees.

He moved to Shomria in 2006, became the kibbutz secretary and joined the Bnei Shimon Regional Council. Placed third on the Tkuma list and seventh on the joint list with the Jewish Home, he was elected to the 19th Knesset in January 2013. In January 2015 he left the joint list after Eli Ohana was added to it, and he did not return to it.

After leaving Tkuma he supported Eli Yishai's Yachad party. He is married to Iris, an art teacher, has 6 children and lives in Shomria.