Moshe Yehuda Tur-Paz (Hebrew: משה יהודה טור-פז; born 29 April 1972) is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid.
Biography
Tur-Paz was born in Philadelphia in 1972. His parents were British immigrants to Israel in the 1950s, and were working in the United States for the Jewish Agency.[1] The family returned to Israel the following year, and he grew up in Haifa and Jerusalem, as well as spending part of his childhood in the United Kingdom.[1][2] He was educated at the Neve Shmuel Yeshiva and Yeshivat Har Etzion,[2] and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in Jewish thought and the Bible and a master's degree in Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After serving as deputy headmaster of the Pelech school, he managed the Shaked secondary school in Sde Eliyahu from 2007 to 2012. In 2012 he was appointed Director of Education of Jerusalem municipality, a role he held until 2017. He subsequently became director of the education network of the Religious Kibbutz Movement.