10 Facts About Meir Porush

Meir Porush is an Israeli politician who has served as a member of the Knesset for the Haredi Agudat Yisrael faction of United Torah Judaism in several spells since 1996.

Meir Porush ran unsuccessfully in the 1983 Jerusalem mayoral election as the Agudat Yisrael nominee.

Meir Porush ran for the mayoralty again in 1989, but was again unsuccessful.

Meir Porush was first elected to the Knesset in the 1996 elections as an Agudat Yisrael candidate on the United Torah Judaism list, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Housing in Binyamin Netanyahu's first government.

Meir Porush retained his seat in the 1999 elections, and chaired the Knesset inquiry into financial problems of local councils.

Meir Porush retained his Knesset seat in the 2009 elections, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Education in Netanyahu's second government.

Meir Porush was re-elected again in 2013 and 2015, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Education in the Netanyahu's fourth government formed in May 2015.

In March 2016, Meir Porush was reprimanded by the Knesset ethics committee for saying that the "Women of the Wall" should be "thrown to the dogs".

Meir Porush responded by saying that if "Women of the Wall" refrained from eating non-kosher food, he would apologize to them.

Meir Porush returned to the Knesset in 2019, but resigned his seat in June 2020 after being appointed Deputy Minister of Education, allowing Yitzhak Pindrus to take his seat.