July-Joel Edelstein
Juli-Joel Edelstein ( Hebrew יולי - יואל אדלשטיין, Russian Юлий Эдельштейн , Ukrainian Юрій Едельштейн , * 5 August 1958 in Czernowitz ) is an Israeli politician of the Likud - the party and was until his resignation on March 25, 2020 Speaker of the Knesset .
Life
His mother, Anita Edelstein, was Jewish while his father, Juri Edelstein, was the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. Both converted to Christianity. Edelstein's father became an Orthodox priest in Karabanowo in the Kostroma region with the name of Father Georgi. While his parents taught at rural universities, Edelstein was raised by his maternal grandparents. His grandfather had taught himself Hebrew at the age of 70 and used to hear the voice of Israel on shortwave radio. When Edelstein's grandfather died, Juli began studying Hebrew and reading books such as Exodus by Leon Uris . In 1977, during his sophomore year, Edelstein applied for an exit visa to immigrate to Israel. The application was turned down and he began teaming up with a small group of Hebrew teachers who were teaching classes in their homes. In 1984 he was arrested and convicted of drug possession. He spent three and a half years in difficult conditions in a labor camp, where he was seriously injured in an industrial accident. In 1987 he was released and allowed to emigrate to Israel.
After his aliyah , he began to be interested in politics. First he was a member of the National Religious Party (Mafdal), later he was one of the founders of the party Jisra'el ba-Alija , which was merged into Likud in 2003. From 1996 to 1999 he was Minister for Reception of Immigrants and from 2001 to 2003 Deputy Minister for Reception of Immigrants. From 2009 to 2013 he was Minister for Information and Diaspora Affairs . From 2013 to March 2020 he was the spokesman for the Knesset . In the Benjamin Netanyahu V cabinet , which was formed in May 2020, he took over the Ministry of Health .
He was married to Tatiana (Tanya) Edelstein, who was a Zionist activist, for 33 years from 1981 to 2014. They met in the Soviet Union when she attended a Hebrew class that he taught. After immigrating to Israel, she worked as a civil engineer for the Civil Aviation Administration. Tanya and Juli Edelstein had two children together. In 2014, Tanya died of cancer at the age of 63. In June 2016, Edelstein married Irina Nevzlin, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Beit Hatfutsot Museum and President of the NADAV Foundation.
He lives in the Israeli settlement Neve Daniel , which belongs to the Gush Etzion settlement block in the occupied West Bank .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Edelstein, Juli-Joel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gemstone, yuli-yoel; Эдельштейн, Юлий (Russian); Едельштейн, Юрій (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi |