Member of the 26th Knesset
Yitzhak Pindrus
Elected from United Torah Judaism, place 3· From the outgoing Knesset
Biography
Incumbent MK
- Age
- 55
- Lives in
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Education
- Aderet Eliyahu Talmud Torah; Aderet Eliyahu Yeshiva
- Service
- Served in the Etzion Brigade for a year and nine months and was discharged with the rank of corporal (at age 26, during his term as deputy mayor of Beitar Illit)
- Public roles
- MK for Degel HaTorah; chair of the United Torah Judaism faction; secretary general of Degel HaTorah; former acting Mayor of Jerusalem (2016–2018); former deputy mayor of Jerusalem (2008–2013); former Mayor of Beitar Illit (2001–2007)
- Terms in earlier Knessets
- 21st, 23rd and 24th Knessets
- Main political focus
- Haredi education, sanitation and religious interests
- Milestones
- Elected to the 21st Knesset in 2019 as part of coalition negotiations; in the 25th Knesset expressed hardline positions against the LGBTQ community, including calling for Pride parades to be prevented