Yosef Taieb ( he, יוֹסֵף טָיֶיבּ, born 15 February 1981) is an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for

Shas Shas ( he, ש״ס) is a Haredi religious political party in Israel. Founded in 1984 under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual leader until his death in October 2013, it primarily ...

Biography

Taieb was born in the 15th arrondissement of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

to parents of

Tunisian Jewish The history of the Jews in Tunisia extended nearly two thousand years and goes back to the Ancient Carthage, Punic era. The Jewish community in Tunisia is no doubt older and grew up following successive waves of immigration and proselytism ...

descent. He

emigrated Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

to Israel at the age of 17 to study in the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. During his national service in the

Israel Defence Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branch ...

, he served in the Givati Brigade.French-born rabbi sworn in to Knesset
''The Jerusalem Post'', 1 July 2020 Between 2006 and 2008 he worked in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...

as a community rabbi.Yosef Taieb: Public Activities
Knesset After returning to Israel, he managed projects for French immigrants run by the Wolfson Foundation from 2009 to 2020. Taieb was elected to the municipal council of

Kiryat Ye'arim ( he, קִרְיַת יְעָרִים), also known as Telz-Stone, is an strictly Orthodox town in the Jerusalem District of Israel. It is located in the approximate area of an ancient place mentioned in the Bible, from which it takes its name. ...

. In 2018 he became deputy mayor of the council. He was placed fifteenth on the Shas list for the April 2019 elections, but the party won only eight seats. He was placed twelfth for the September 2019 elections, in which Shas won nine seats. Although he missed out again in the March 2020 elections in which he was placed eleventh and Shas again won nine seats, he entered the Knesset on 1 July 2020 as a replacement for

Yoav Ben-Tzur Rabbi Yoav Ben-Tzur (, born 11 June 1958) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Shas, Minister in the Ministry of Labor, and as acting Minister of Health. Ben-Tzur previously served as the Deputy Minister of ...

, who had resigned his seat under the Norwegian Law after being appointed to the cabinet. Placed tenth on the Shas list for the March 2021 elections, he lost his seat as the party won nine seats. He regained his seat when Aryeh Deri resigned his own seat under the Norwegian Law; he left the Knesset again when Deri returned to the legislature after losing his ministerial position. When Deri resigned from the Knesset in January 2022, Taieb returned for a third spell.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taieb, Yosef 1981 births Living people French emigrants to Israel 21st-century French rabbis French Orthodox rabbis Clergy from Toulouse Israeli Orthodox rabbis Israeli people of French-Jewish descent Members of the 23rd Knesset (2020–2021) Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022) Members of the 25th Knesset (2022–) Politicians from Paris Rabbinic members of the Knesset Shas politicians