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Yuli Edelstein
יולי אדלשטיין
MK (ousted as FAD Committee chair July 2025; removed from the committee entirely Oct 2025 after voting for Judea-Samaria sovereignty bill)
Age 67; Soviet-born refusenik who spent 3 years in a Siberian gulag for teaching Hebrew underground; freed May 1987, made aliyah and settled in Alon Shvut, later serving as Knesset Speaker 2013-2020.
Positions and record
- Drafted a conscription bill with real enforcement to share the wartime service burden, while keeping yeshiva learning tracks for serious students
- Ousted from FAD Committee chair July 2025 after refusing to advance a sweeping Haredi exemption bill he viewed as insufficient for IDF needs
- Removed from the FAD Committee entirely October 2025 after voting in favor of applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, against Likud's abstention line
- Argues a credible draft framework is essential to sustain right-wing rule and IDF manpower during the multi-front war
- Long-standing champion of Soviet Jewry, aliyah, and Russian-speaking Israelis
Cite this page
Yuli Edelstein, The State of Israel. https://thestateofisrael.com/mk/yuli-edelstein