Ya'akov Litzman

Ya'akov Litzman

Ya'akov Litzman, Hebrew: יעקב ליצמן , (born September 2, 1948 in Germany) is an Israeli rabbi and politician of Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet ("United Torah Judaism", shortened UTJ). He is political leader of Agudat Yisrael ("Union of Israel"), one of the two branches of UTJ. He belongs to the Hasidism movement of Haredi Judaism.

Shortly after his birth Litzman migrated to the United States, followed by a migration to Israel when he was a teenager.

In 1999 he was elected to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. In 2015 he was appointed deputy health minister in the Fourth Netanyahu Government. Later that year he became the health minister, so he was included in the government coalition of ruling parties. In November 2017 he again became deputy health minister because he didn't agree that the government allowed repair activities on the national railway infrastructure on the Shabbat. Since May 17, 2020 he has been minister of construction in the Fifth Netanyahu Government.

In early April 2020, Litzman was diagnosed with COVID-19.

References

• Bio at Knesset Website

Current political leaders in the Knesset

Mansour Abbas (The Joint List - Ra'am)  • Naftali Bennett (Yamina - New Right)  • Yael Cohen-Paran (Green Party)  • Aryeh Deri (Shas)  • Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism - Degel HaTorah)  •   Benny Gantz (Blue and White - Israel Resilience)  •   Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz)  • Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid-Telem - Yesh Atid)  • Orly Levy (Gesher)  • Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu)  • Ya'akov Litzman (United Torah Judaism - Agudat Yisrael)  • Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)  • Ayman Odeh (The Joint List - Hadash)  • Amir Peretz (HaAvoda)  • Rafi Peretz (HaBayit HaYehudi)  • Mtanes Shehadeh (The Joint List - Balad)  • Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina - Tkuma)  • Ahmad Tibi (The Joint List - Ta'al)  • Moshe Ya'alon (Yesh Atid-Telem - Telem)