Yisrael Eichler

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Yisrael Eichler ( Hebrew ישראל אייכלר, Born March 27, 1955 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli journalist , author and politician of the Agudat Jisra'el .

Life

Yisrael Eichler is a Belzer Hasid . On Kollel Machzikei hadat he studied Talmud and rabbinic literature. In 1978 he was one of the co-founders of the Hasidic presence in Ashdod and dealt with the establishment of facilities for Belz Hasidism there. Yisrael Eichler lives in Jerusalem, is married and has fourteen children.

Journalistic activity

Eichler works as an author and journalist in Israel. In addition to numerous articles and brochures, he published a book: Hebrew כמלאך הניצב על ראש דרך“Like an angel standing in the street” (1995). Since 1980 he has been editor of the weekly newspaper HaMahane HaHaredi (“The Charedi Camp ”). From 2005 to 2011 he was also responsible for a daily news program for the Kol Chai station .

Member of the Knesset

In the parliamentary elections in Israel in 2003 , Eichler was elected to the 16th Knesset for the United Torah-Judaism Alliance , to which he was a member for two years on a rotation system. He was not a member of the 17th Knesset.

In the parliamentary election in Israel in 2009 , Eichler was re-elected for United Torah Judaism . He was a member of the 18th Knesset for two years, during which time he was chairman of the parliamentary group of his party alliance. He was a member of the finance, economic, education, culture and sport committees; he was part of the parliamentary committee that dealt with the issue of Arab workers in the public sector and of the committee that was supposed to prepare an employment law.

After the parliamentary elections in Israel in 2013 , Eichler was a member of the 19th Knesset. He was a member of the home and environment committee and two special committees for public petitions and for the Broadcasting Act. Eichler belonged to the Knesset delegation for relations with the European Parliament as well as to the Israeli-Belgian parliamentary friendship group.

The parliamentary elections in Israel in 2015 also brought Eichler a seat in the 20th Knesset. He chaired the Public Petitions Committee and has served on several other committees: Housing, Labor, Health, and Special Committees on Public Service Issues and the Situation of Elderly Citizens. He was chairman of the Israeli-Hungarian parliamentary friendship group.

Yisrael Eichler was also a member of the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Knesset.

Positions

Yisrael Eichler is referred to as the unofficial spokesman for ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Jerusalem or as a “popular and comparatively moderate scholar who frequently appears on television”. In 2015, he compared the Women of the Wall to the Muslim activists of the Murabitat group , who were expelled from the Temple Mount after harassing Jewish worshipers there. In 2016, he compared non-Orthodox users of a public ritual bath with the mentally ill who were allowed access to an operating room. The statement was criticized by spokesmen for the Central Conference of American Rabbis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Frankel: Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy , Oxford 2000, p. 203.
  2. ↑ Divorce of friends . In: Der Spiegel 11 (1998), pp. 160–163, here p. 160.
  3. ↑ Ultra-Orthodox lawmaker Compares Women of the Wall to banned Muslim group . In: The Times of Israel , October 27, 2015.
  4. ^ Ultra-Orthodox MK compares Reform movement to mentally ill person . In: The Times of Israel, February 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eichler, Yisrael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem , Israel