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Uri Shraga Orbach ((ヘブライ語:אורי שרגא אורבך); 28 March 1960 – 16 February 2015) was an Israeli Religious Zionist writer, journalist and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home party and as Minister of Pensioner Affairs. ==Biography== Orbach was born in Petah Tikva, Israel. He attended a Hesder yeshiva, and did his national service in Israel Defense Forces in the IDF Armored Corps, where he served as a Staff Sergeant. He later worked as a journalist, producing columns for ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' and serving as a co-host for the Army Radio mid-morning show 'The Last Word'. He also wrote several children's books, including ''Donkeys on the Roof and Other Stories'', and a dictionary of Religious Zionist slang, ''My Grandfather Was a Rabbi'', as well as founding and editing the popular Israeli children's magazines ''Otiot'' and ''Sukariot''. Prior to the 2009 elections, he joined the Jewish Home. Following a split in the party, in which several members left to re-establish the National Union party, he was placed third on the party's list,〔(Jewish Home ) Knesset website 〕 and entered the Knesset as it won three seats. For the 2013 elections he was placed sixth on the Jewish Home list,〔(Jewish Home blames Likud for leaking Gimpel video ) Times of Israel, 20 January 2013〕 retaining his seat as the party won 12 seats. He was appointed Minister of Pensioner Affairs on 18 March 2013. Orbach lived in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut with his wife and four children. In January 2015, he took a leave of absence from politics for health reasons, to battle a chronic hematologic disease. In February 2015, his condition took a turn for the worse, and he died in the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on 16 February 2015.〔(Ex-Jewish Home minister Uri Orbach dies at 54 ) Times of Israel, 16 February 2015〕〔(Bayit Yehudi minister Uri Orbach dies at 54 )〕 His seat in the Knesset was taken by Hillel Horowitz. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uri Orbach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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