Place of birth Tel Aviv, Israel Name Yoav Kish | Role Politician | |
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Date of birth (1968-12-06) 6 December 1968 (age 47) Knessets Israeli legislative election, 2015 | ||
Yoav Kish | First Jerusalem Leaders Summit 2015
Yoav Kish (Hebrew: יואב קיש; born 6 December 1968) is an Israeli pilot and politician.
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Biography
Kish was born and raised in Tel Aviv, to a family of British-Jewish origin. His grandfather was Frederick Kisch, the highest-ranking Jew ever to serve in the British Army. He held British citizenship until having to renounce it in 2015 as a condition of being allowed to take up a seat in the Knesset. 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, a slot reserved for the Tel Aviv region. He was elected to the Knesset when Likud won 30 seats.
Kish is married with three children and lives in Ramat Gan.
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