19 Facts About Nissim Vaturi

Nissim Vaturi has served as a member of the Knesset for Likud since 2022, having previously served between 2020 and 2021.

Nissim Vaturi married a teacher, with whom he had seven children.

Nissim Vaturi received a correspondence doctorate from the International University of Business and Law in Kherson, Ukraine in 2008, but the qualification is not recognised in Israel.

Nissim Vaturi was placed thirty-seventh on the Likud list for the April 2019 elections, but the party won only 35 seats.

Nissim Vaturi was placed fortieth for the September 2019 elections, in which Likud won 32 seats.

Nissim Vaturi initially run as a representative of regional councils but later changed his registered address to the local council of Katzrin, which falls under a different electoral district.

Critics within Likud alleged that Nissim Vaturi did not genuinely reside in Katzrin and only changed his address for electoral purposes.

Nissim Vaturi was elected to the Knesset again, as Likud won thirty-two seats.

Nissim Vaturi is currently a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and a member of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

In 2022 Nissim Vaturi's name was found on a construction project in Tel Aviv, when he was listed as the executing contractor for a recently-started project on Basel Street in the city.

In 2023 Nissim Vaturi claimed that some parents who support "LGBTQ values" are giving their boys dolls to play with to encourage them to be gay.

Nissim Vaturi was condemned by members of his own family.

In November 2023, after the Hamas-led attack and during the ensuing war, Nissim Vaturi said that Israel had been "too humane" in the Gaza Strip and should instead "burn Gaza".

Nissim Vaturi later claimed to have meant only the terrorists; he did not say 'terrorists' in the tweet or the interview.

Nissim Vaturi called on Israel to block water "until the hostages are returned".

Nissim Vaturi has said of the war "We were meant to fight this war against Hamas, as is happening now, and luckily for us it came from the heavens".

On 19 June 2024 Nissim Vaturi said anti-government protesters were a 'branch of Hamas'.

In July 2024, after the Israeli military police visited Sde Teiman detention camp to detain nine Israeli soldiers suspected of abuse of a Palestinian prisoner, Nissim Vaturi joined other right-wingers in illegally invading the Sde Teiman detention camp.

Nissim Vaturi called for the separation of women and children and for killing all adult men in Gaza.