Yoav Kisch

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Yoav Kisch
Kisch in 2017
Ministerial roles
2022–	Minister of Education
2022–2023	Minister of Regional Cooperation
Faction represented in the Knesset
2015–2023	Likud
Personal details
Born	(1968-12-06) 6 December 1968 (age 55) Tel Aviv, Israel

Yoav Kisch (Hebrew: יוֹאָב קִישׁ; born 6 December 1968) is an Israeli politician. Previously a military and then civil pilot, he served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2015 to 2023 and has been Minister of Education and Minister of Regional Cooperation since December 2022.

Kisch was born and raised in Tel Aviv. His paternal grandfather was Frederick Kisch, the highest-ranking Jew ever to serve in the British Army. Through his mother, he is a descendant of Shmuel Salant, who served as Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem in the 19th century. Kisch held British citizenship until having to renounce it in 2015 as a condition of being allowed to take up a seat in the Knesset.^[1] He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

He was on the Likud Yisrael Beiteinu list for the 2013 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat.

Prior to the 2015 elections he was placed 19th on the Likud list,^[2] a slot reserved for the Tel Aviv region.^[3] He was elected to the Knesset when Likud won 30 seats.^[4] In March 2023, Kisch resigned from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law and was replaced by Sasson Guetta.^[5]

Kisch is married with three children and lives in Ramat Gan.

• Yoav Kisch on the Knesset website