Yigal Guetta

Yigal Guetta
Date of birth (1966-03-18) 18 March 1966
Place of birth Kiryat Shmona, Israel
Knessets 20
Faction represented in Knesset
2016–2017 Shas

Nissan Yigal Guetta (Hebrew: ניסן יגאל גואטה‎, born 18 March 1966) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas between 2016 and 2017.

Background

Guetta was born and raised in Kiryat Shmona, where his brother and sister-in-law were killed in the Kiryat Shmona massacre in 1974. He carried out his IDF national service in the Nahal. He was educated at Bais Hatalmud in Jerusalem, and gained a master's degree in business and public administration.

In 2008, he was appointed CEO of the municipality of El'ad. In 2013, he was elected to Bnei Brak City Council on the Shas list, becoming responsible for the finance portfolio.

Guetta was placed tenth on the Shas list for the 2015 Knesset elections,[1] but failed to become a Knesset member when Shas won seven seats. In January 2016, he entered the Knesset after Deputy Minister of the Interior Meshulam Nahari resigned as an MK under the Norwegian Law.[2] However, in September 2017 Guetta resigned from the Knesset under pressure from rabbis after he revealed on Army Radio that he had attended the same-sex marriage ceremony of his nephew two years earlier,[3][4] although he received support from MKs from other parties including Yair Lapid and Merav Michaeli.[4] His seat was taken by Danny Saida.

Married, with three children, Guetta lives in the Pardes Katz neighbourhood of Bnei Brak.

References

  1. ↑ Shas list Central Elections Committee
  2. ↑ New Shas MK Yigal Guetta sworn in The Jerusalem Post, 26 January 2016
  3. ↑ "Rabbis urge removal of Shas MK who attended nephew's gay wedding". The Times of Israel. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  4. 1 2 Sharon, Jeremy (13 September 2017). "Shas MK Resigns Amid Flak attending Wedding of Gay Nephew". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
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