Eliezer Moses
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Menachem Eliezer Moses is an Israel
Israel
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i politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset
Knesset
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 for United Torah Judaism
United Torah Judaism
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 and as Deputy Minister of Education
Ministry of Education (Israel)
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Biography

Moses was educated in a yeshiva
Yeshiva
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, and worked as a project initiator. He served as the deputy Director General in the Ministry of Education
Ministry of Education (Israel)
The Israeli Ministry of Education is the branch of government charged with overseeing public education institutions in Israel. The political head of the department is the Minster of Education, currently Gideon Sa'ar....

 and was responsibly for ultra-orthodox
Haredi Judaism
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 education. He also helped plan and establish nursing homes for the elderly and housing projects for young couples.

He was placed eleventh on the United Torah Judaism list for the 2006 elections, but missed out on a seat as the party received only five mandates. Prior to the 2009 elections
Israeli legislative election, 2009
Elections for the 18th Knesset were held in Israel on 10 February 2009. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government...

 he was placed fifth on the party's list, and entered the Knesset as the party won five seats. In February 2011 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education after Meir Porush resigned his seat as part of a rotation agreement.

Moses currently lives in Jerusalem, and is married with ten children.

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