Nissan Slomiansky

Nissan Slomiansky (Hebrew: ניסן סלומיאנסקי; born 10 January 1946) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1996 and 1999, and again from 2003-2009, and was re-elected again in 2013. He is a member of the Jewish Home party.

Nissan Slomiansky
ניסן סלומיאנסקי
Faction represented in the Knesset
1996–1999	National Religious Party
2003–2009	National Religious Party
2013–2019	The Jewish Home
Personal details
Born	(1946-01-10) 10 January 1946 (age 79) Ramat Gan, Mandatory Palestine

Biography

Slomiansky was born in Ramat Gan during the Mandate era in the family, who migrated from the Second Polish Republic. He was educated at Bnei Akiva's yeshiva in Nechalim, and completed academic studies in physics and mathematics at Bar-Ilan University.^{[citation needed]} He also studied in the Hesder Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, where he was certified as a teacher and ordained as a Rabbi. After his studies, he enlisted to the Nahal Paratroopers unit and reached the rank of first lieutenant.^{[citation needed]} Thereafter, he turned to politics, serving for more than two decades from 1977 to 1998 as the first head of Elkana local council. He was also the secretary-general of Gush Emunim.^[1][2]

In the 1996 elections, Slomiansky was placed 10th on the National Religious Party's list of candidates. He entered the Knesset in May 1997, following the death of Avraham Stern. He lost his seat in the 1999 elections, but regained it in 2003 when he was placed sixth on the party's list of candidates. He was later re-elected to the Seventeenth Knesset in 2006.^[1][2]

During the Sixteenth Knesset (2003-2006), Slomiansky headed the parliamentary lobby for elderly persons, and served as the chairperson of the party's Knesset caucus. For the 2009 elections, he won a fourth place on the Jewish Home list, but lost his seat when the party won only three seats. In the 2013 election, he was placed third on the Jewish Home list and was re-elected to Knesset.^[2][3][4] In 2011, he was appointed Vice President of the Lander Institute, replacing retired General Yaakov Amidror, who was appointed Head of the National Security Council.^[5]

Following allegations of sexual misconduct,^[6] in December 2016, Slomiansky suspended himself from the chairmanship of the Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee.^[7] A police investigation into Slomiansky's conduct was closed in 2017 due to lack of evidence.^[8]

Slomiansky retired from poliical life in January of 2019, and left the Knesset afer the April 2019 election.^[9]

Family

Slomiansky is married, and a father of five children.^[10]