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Israeli politician

Haim Biton
Biton in 2023

Ministerial roles
2022–	Minister in the Ministry of Education
Faction represented in the Knesset
2021–	Shas

Personal details
Born	(1978-01-17) 17 January 1978 (age 46) Jerusalem, Israel

Haim Biton (Hebrew: חַיִּים בִּיטוֹן, born 17 January 1978) is an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Shas. Biton also serves as a minister in the Ministry of Education.

Biography

Biton was appointed CEO of Shas in 2014. In 2016 he took over the party's Ma'ayan Hinukh Torani school system, increasing its enrollment by 10,000 in two years. Following a complaint by Hiddush, in 2020 the Office of the Attorney General ruled that he could not be both CEO of the party and the school network.

Biton was placed ninth on the Shas list for the 2015 elections. The party won only seven seats, and when he had the opportunity to take his seat as a replacement, he declined, allowing Yigal Guetta to take his place. He subsequently turned down the opportunity to run on the party's list for the April 2019 Knesset elections. However, prior to the 2021 elections he was placed fifth on the Shas list, and was elected to the Knesset as the party won nine seats.

Biton lives in Givat Ze'ev, an Israeli settlement located north of Jerusalem.

References

^ בחירות 2021: אלה הם חברי הכנסת ה-24 מטעם ש"ס Mako, 25 March 2021
Chaim Biton is Shas’ New CEO The Yeshiva World, 17 February 2014
Shas Languishes in the Polls, Yet Its Low-achievement School System Is Growing Fast Haaretz, 3 September 2008
Shas CEO cannot simultaneously be CEO of state-funded educational network Hiddush
Shas’ Director-General, Chaim Biton, Refuses Placement On A Knesset List The Yeshiva World, 20 February 2019

External links

Haim Biton on the Knesset website

v t e Current members of the Knesset
Likud	Netanyahu Levin Gallant Ohana Barkat Dichter Israel Katz Karhi Bitan Edelstein Revivo Distel-Atbaryan Vaturi Danino Gotliv Milwidsky Bismuth Saada Dellal Gamliel Ofir Katz Golan Illouz Kallner Atiya Halevi Melaku Shekalim Shitrit Passal Guetta Boaron
Yesh Atid	Lapid Meir Cohen Elharrar Meirav Cohen Stern Mickey Levy Ben-Ari Ben-Barak Segalovich Toporovsky Shir Roll Lahav-Hertzanu Beliak Ron Katz Sarfati Harkavi Mazarsky Fridman Biton Tur-Paz Davidson Shiri Meron Levi
Shas	Deri Malchieli Arbel Azulai Abutbul Buso Taieb Betzalel Mishraki Malul Moshiashvili
National Unity	Gantz Eizenkot Tamano-Shata Tropper Michael Biton Kahana Farkash-Hacohen Schuster
NRP-RZ	Sofer Strook Rothman Waldiger Tal Solomon Sukkot
United Torah Judaism	Gafni Tessler Asher Eichler Pindrus Roth Baruchi
Yisrael Beiteinu	Lieberman Forer Sova Nir Malinovsky Amar Kushnir
Otzma Yehudit	Ben-Gvir Wasserlauf Almog Cohen Fogel Har-Melech Kroizer
United Arab List	Abbas Taha Alhwashla Khatib-Yassin Hujeirat
Hadash–Ta'al	Odeh Tibi Touma-Suleiman Cassif Atauna
Labor	Michaeli Lazimi Kariv Rayten
National Right	Sa'ar Elkin Haskel Buskila
Noam	Maoz

v t e Current government of Israel
Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu
Ministers	Yariv Levin (Deputy Prime Minister, Justice) Ofir Akunis (Science and Technology) Nir Barkat (Economy) Itamar Ben-Gvir (National Security) Yoav Ben-Tzur (Minister in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, and Social Services) Haim Biton (Minister in the Ministry of Education) Amichai Chikli (Diaspora Affairs, Social Equality) Eli Cohen (Foreign Affairs) Ron Dermer (Strategic Affairs) Avi Dichter (Agriculture and Rural Development) Moshe Arbel (Interior) Uriel Buso (Health) Amihai Eliyahu (Heritage) Yoav Gallant (Defense) Gila Gamliel (Intelligence) Yitzhak Goldknopf (Housing and Construction, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office) Shlomo Karhi (Communications) Haim Katz (Tourism) Israel Katz (Energy) Yoav Kisch (Education, Regional Cooperation) Michael Malchieli (Religious Affairs) Ya'akov Margi (Labor, Social Affairs, and Social Services) Meir Porush (Jerusalem and Tradition) Miri Regev (Transportation) Idit Silman (Environmental Protection) Bezalel Smotrich (Finance, Minister in the Ministry of Defense) Ofir Sofer (Aliyah and Integration) Orit Strook (National Missions) Yitzhak Wasserlauf (Development of the Negev and Galilee) Miki Zohar (Culture and Sport) May Golan (Promotion of Women)
Ministers without Portfolio	Benny Gantz Gideon Sa'ar Gadi Eizenkot Hili Tropper Yifat Shasha-Biton
See also: 2022 Knesset elections Current members of the Knesset Israeli war cabinet

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