Yaakov Asher
No. 1 on the list
Yaakov Tessler
No. 8 on the list of United Torah Judaism
Photo: Knesset website
Axis scores
From the record in previous Knessets
The security axis
The security axis: +3.2 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. 345 bills · 587 votes
From votes · 345 bills · 587 votes
The economic axis
The economic axis: +1.5 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. 494 bills · 1,156 votes
From votes · 494 bills · 1,156 votes
Conservative-Liberal
Conservative-Liberal: +3.3 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. 360 bills · 604 votes
From votes · 360 bills · 604 votes
Provisional combined score: the two scales are not calibrated to each other.
The security axis
The security axis: +3.2 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. Combined (provisional). Not measured from committee remarks · 345 bills
Combined (provisional) · Not measured from committee remarks · 345 bills
The economic axis
The economic axis: +1.5 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. Combined (provisional). Not measured from committee remarks · 494 bills
Combined (provisional) · Not measured from committee remarks · 494 bills
Conservative-Liberal
Conservative-Liberal: +3.3 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. Combined (provisional). Not measured from committee remarks · 360 bills
Combined (provisional) · Not measured from committee remarks · 360 bills
Position on the political map
Compared with the lists
Yaakov Tessler: +3.2 on the security axis and +1.5 on the economic axis, on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. On the map: 15 of 38 lists.
About
Yaakov Tessler: No. 8 on the list of United Torah Judaism for the 26th Knesset. In previous Knessets: votes on 802 bills and attendance at 52 committee sessions. Plenum votes on bills are included up to 28 July 2026, and committee discussions up to 24 March 2026.
Yoel Yaakov Tessler is a politician from United Torah Judaism, of the Vizhnitz Hasidic movement, who was elected to the Knesset for the first time in April 2019. He served as deputy minister of culture and sports, and resigned from the position and from his seat in the Knesset on 30 June 2025 when his faction left the coalition during the draft law crisis; Eliyahu Baruchi entered in his place. Born in Jerusalem in 1973, he previously served as a member of a religious council and as a member of the Ashdod city council. He is running on the United Torah Judaism list for the 26th Knesset at No. 8.
- List for the 26th Knesset
- United Torah Judaism
- Place on the list
- 8
- Bills voted on (Knessets 20-25)
- 802 bills
- Committee sessions with attendance (Knessets 19-25)
- 52 sessions
- On the Knesset website
- Official page
Members of United Torah Judaism
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Yehuda Leib Weisfish
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David Zeltz
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David Ohana
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Moshe Roth
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Eliyahu Baruchi
No. 12 on the list
Israel Porush
No. 13 on the list
Yitzhak Reich
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Yosef Bahem
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No. 16 on the list
Yossi Deutsch
No. 17 on the list
Shmuel Greenberg
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Yechiel Aryeh Weingarten
No. 19 on the list
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Peretz Abramovitz
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Menachem Mendel Shapira
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Haim Meir Katz
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Ephraim Weber
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Eliezer Rauchberger
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Avraham Zvi Rushgold
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Avraham Ben-Zion Deutsch
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Menachem Elboim
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Mordechai Michael Alpher
No. 29 on the list
Haim Meir Wiesel
No. 30 on the list
Shimon Israel Kellerman
No. 31 on the list
Yeshayahu Yitzhak Weisman
No. 32 on the list
Israel Golomb
No. 33 on the list
Avraham Alexander Ziskind Bresler
No. 34 on the list
Yosef Shaul Shitrit
No. 35 on the list
Binyamin Hecker
No. 36 on the list
Pinchas Shalom Bedor
No. 37 on the list
Yehoshua Mendel
No. 38 on the list
Yehuda Yavruv
No. 39 on the list
Nahum Yechiel Klein
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Mordechai Zeev Blau
No. 41 on the list
Amram Drinfeld
No. 42 on the list
Pinchas David Siroka
No. 43 on the list
Aharon Tiranhuz
No. 44 on the list
Yitzhak Dov Berger
No. 45 on the list
Shlomo Deutsch
No. 46 on the list
Meir Yaffe
No. 47 on the list
Baruch Eliezer Lutskin
No. 48 on the list
Israel Meir Sverdlov
No. 49 on the list
Hillel Rubinstein
No. 50 on the list
Avraham Pinchas Stern
No. 51 on the list
Shimon Goldberg
No. 52 on the list
Shlomo Ephraim Pollak
No. 53 on the list
Yitzhak Aharon Klein
No. 54 on the list
Eliyahu Yosef Brunner
No. 55 on the list
Avraham Nachman Frenkel
No. 56 on the list
Ephraim Fishel Wiesel
No. 57 on the list
Meir Shechter
No. 58 on the list
Moshe Uri Disler
No. 59 on the list
Zvi Yosef Levran
No. 60 on the list
Nahum Aharon Gitler
No. 61 on the list
David Nachman Rottner
No. 62 on the list
Israel Mordechai Silverstein
No. 63 on the list
Michael Dov Gerlitz
No. 64 on the list
Shmuel Shuk
No. 65 on the list
Shlomo Brillant
No. 66 on the list
Yitzhak Meir Brom
No. 67 on the list
Ephraim Yohanan Ben-Gad
No. 68 on the list
Haim Baruch Vichelder
No. 69 on the list
David Finkel
No. 70 on the list
Yehezkel Shraga Bakenrot
No. 71 on the list
Haim Yehuda Reichman
No. 72 on the list
Israel Haim Cohen
No. 73 on the list
Yaakov Gerber
No. 74 on the list
Israel Miller
No. 75 on the list
Avshalom Yaakobi
No. 76 on the list
David Spitzer
No. 77 on the list
Liron Amar
No. 78 on the list
Yaakov Haim Zorger
No. 79 on the list
Menachem Mendel Gold
No. 80 on the list
Yoel Frohlich
No. 81 on the list
Avir Har-Even
No. 82 on the list
Avraham Stern
No. 83 on the list
Ofer Elkayam
No. 84 on the list
Binyamin Zeev Glick
No. 85 on the list
Ofer Ezra
No. 86 on the list
Yaakov Greenwald
No. 87 on the list
Elkana Weinstein
No. 88 on the list
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No. 89 on the list
Aryeh Yehuda Zisman
No. 90 on the list
Israel Leizer
No. 91 on the list
Shlomo Yehuda Goldenthal
No. 92 on the list
Menachem Mendel Rudich
No. 93 on the list
David Miller
No. 94 on the list
Israel Frenkel
No. 95 on the list
Ephraim Weiss
No. 96 on the list
Haim Gross
No. 97 on the list
Yona Moshkovitz
No. 98 on the list
Avraham Yaakov Levin
No. 99 on the list
Moshe Frank
No. 100 on the list
Haim Uri Brim
No. 101 on the list
Elhanan Ehrentreu
No. 102 on the list
Menachem Shimon Aryeh Bernstein
No. 103 on the list
Moshe Mann
No. 104 on the list
Haim Klein
No. 105 on the list
Menachem Schwartz
No. 106 on the list
Eliyahu Gafni
No. 107 on the list
Yaakov Vizbinsky
No. 108 on the list
Yehezkel Shaul Landau
No. 109 on the list
Shimon Hadad
No. 110 on the list
Yosef Zvi Jakobovits
No. 111 on the list
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Eliezer Sorotzkin
No. 114 on the list
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Uri Maklev
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Moshe Gafni
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Committees
View all committeesThe five committees with the highest attendance in the 25th Knesset. “Spoke” is counted from the committee sessions that were analysed. The data has no committee membership list, so this is attendance and speaking, not formal membership.
| Committee | Sessions attended | Spoke | Chaired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance Committee | 1 | 0 of 842 | 0 |
Legislative activity
View all billsThe bills whose vote moved the votes-based score the most, on each axis. These are bills that were voted on, not bills that were submitted: the data does not record who proposed a bill.
| Bill name | Vote | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Law: Entry, Immigration, and Status in Israel Bill25th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 6 Jan 2026 | For | Details: Basic Law: Entry, Immigration, and Status in Israel Bill |
| Application of Sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim Bill, 5785-202525th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 9 Jun 2025 | For | Details: Application of Sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim Bill, 5785-2025 |
| Application of the Sovereignty of the State of Israel in the West Bank Bill, 5785-202525th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 5 May 2025 | For | Details: Application of the Sovereignty of the State of Israel in the West Bank Bill, 5785-2025 |
| Basic Law: Israel - The Nation State of the Jewish People (Amendment - Repeal of the Law) Bill23rd Knesset · Date of the latest document: 7 Dec 2020 | Against | Details: Basic Law: Israel - The Nation State of the Jewish People (Amendment - Repeal of the Law) Bill |
| Bill name | Vote | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - The Right to Equality) Bill25th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 14 Jul 2025 | Against | Details: Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - The Right to Equality) Bill |
| Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - Equality before the Law and Prohibition of Discrimination) Bill25th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 27 Nov 2023 | Against | Details: Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - Equality before the Law and Prohibition of Discrimination) Bill |
| Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - Addition of an Equality Clause) Bill25th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 16 Oct 2023 | Against | Details: Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - Addition of an Equality Clause) Bill |
| Prohibition of Conversion Therapy for a Minor Bill, 5784-202325th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 16 Oct 2023 | Against | Details: Prohibition of Conversion Therapy for a Minor Bill, 5784-2023 |
| Bill name | Vote | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Rights and Services for Children and Youth with Mental Health Difficulties Bill, 5784-202325th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 16 Oct 2023 | Against | Details: Rights and Services for Children and Youth with Mental Health Difficulties Bill, 5784-2023 |
| Welfare Services for Persons with Disabilities Law, 5782-202224th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 11 Jul 2022 | For | Details: Welfare Services for Persons with Disabilities Law, 5782-2022 |
| Basic Law: The State Economy (Amendment No. 10 and Temporary Provision for 2020) (Amendment No. 6)23rd Knesset · Date of the latest document: 29 Oct 2020 | For | Details: Basic Law: The State Economy (Amendment No. 10 and Temporary Provision for 2020) (Amendment No. 6) |
| Income Support (Amendment - Increasing the Benefit) Bill, 5780-202023rd Knesset · Date of the latest document: 26 Apr 2020 | Against | Details: Income Support (Amendment - Increasing the Benefit) Bill, 5780-2020 |
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