Yehiel Moshe "Hili" Tropper ( he, יְחִיאֵל מֹשֶׁה "חִילִי" טְרוֹפֵּר; born 22 April 1978) is an Israeli educator, social worker and politician. He is currently a member of the

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for

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and served as Minister of Culture and Sports from 2020 to 2022.

Biography

Tropper was born in Jerusalem, one of nine children of Rabbi Daniel Tropper. During his national service in the Israel Defense Forces, he was part of the

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. He subsequently became a social worker and earned a BA in humanities from the

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and an MA in Jewish history and education from the Lander Institute. He worked for the

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municipality and also ran the Branco Weiss school in

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. Tropper is married with four children and lives in Nes Harim.

Political career

Prior to the 2013 Knesset elections Tropper was placed twenty-third on the Labor Party list, but the party won only 15 seats. He was subsequently appointed as an advisor to Minister of Education

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. In the build-up to the April 2019 elections he joined the new

Israel Resilience Party The Israel Resilience Party ( he, חוסן לישראל, Hosen LeYisrael, Resilience for Israel), is a liberal political party in Israel founded in December 2018 by Benny Gantz, former Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. T ...

founded by his friend

Benny Gantz Benjamin Gantz ( he, בִּנְיָמִין "בֵּנִי" גַּנְץ, Transliterated: ; born 9 June 1959) is an Israeli politician and retired army general serving as the minister of Defense since 2020 and deputy prime minister of Israel si ...

. The party became part of the Blue and White, with Tropper placed twelfth on the alliance's list. He was elected to the Knesset as Blue and White won 35 seats. He was re-elected in September 2019 and March 2020. In May 2020 he was appointed Minister of Culture and Sports in the new government. He subsequently resigned his Knesset seat under the Norwegian Law and was replaced by

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. He was re-elected to the Knesset in the March 2021 elections. After being appointed Minister of Culture and Sports in the new government, he resigned from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law and was replaced by Mufid Mari.

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