Uri Shraga Orbakh is an Israel

Israel

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i Religious Zionist

Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism is an ideology that combines Zionism and Jewish religious faith...

 writer, journalist and politician. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

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 for The Jewish Home

The Jewish Home

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 party.

Biography

Orbakh was born in Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2009, the city's population stood at 209,600. The population density is approximately...

, Israel. He attended a Hesder

Hesder

Hesder is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework...

 yeshiva, serving as a staff sergeant in tanks and armoured corps. He later worked as a journalist, producing columns for Yedioth Ahronoth

Yedioth Ahronoth

Yedioth Ahronoth is a daily newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel. Since the 1970s, it has been the most widely circulated paper in Israel. In a TGI survey comparing the last half of 2009 with the same period in 2008, Yedioth Ahronoth retained the title of most widely read newspaper in Israel...

 and serving as a co-host for the popular Israel Defense Forces Radio mid-morning show 'The Last Word'. He has written several children's books, including Donkeys on the Roof and Other Stories, and a dictionary of Religious Zionist slang

Slang

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 My Grandfather Was a Rabbi. He founded and edited the popular Israeli children's magazines Otiot and Sukariot.

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 joined the Jewish Home political slate. Following a split in the party, in which several members left to re-establish the National Union

National Union (Israel)

The National Union is an alliance of nationalist political parties in Israel. In the 2009 elections the National Union consisted of four parties: Moledet, Hatikva, Eretz Yisrael Shelanu, and Tkuma.-Background:...

 party, the Jewish Home won three Knesset seats, one of which went to Orbakh.

Orbakh currently lives in Modi'in, Israel with his wife and four children.

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