Avi Maoz
Israeli politician
Avigdor "Avi" Maoz (Hebrew: אביגדור "אבי" מעוז; born 6 July 1956) is an Israeli civil servant and politician. The leader of the far-right, religious conservative Noam party, he is currently its sole member in the Knesset.
Biography
Maoz was born Avigdor Fischheimer in the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood of Haifa. He is the son of Holocaust survivors Esther and Israel Fischheimer. In 1975, he enlisted in the IDF, and in 1977, he was a partner in establishing the settlement Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, and was later the secretary of the Kibbutz. Between 1980 and 1991, he studied at a yeshiva.
Early career
Maoz was appointed Director of the Ministry of Interior by Natan Sharansky in 1999, and subsequently became director of the Ministry of Construction and Housing under minister Effi Eitam. He also served as the director-general of Yisrael BaAliyah.
Political career
Maoz became the leader of the Noam party after its establishment in 2019. He and Noam campaign on Israel's "Jewish identity", which Maoz and his party argue should be Orthodox-religious and socially conservative, against secularism, laicism, liberalism, feminism, and Reform Judaism.
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