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Ya'akov Katz was born on 29 September, 1951 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli politician (born 1951). Discover Ya'akov Katz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 29 September 1951
Birthday 29 September
Birthplace Jerusalem
Nationality Israel

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1930

He is a fifth-generation Israeli through his mother, while his father was an immigrant from Poland who came to Palestine in the 1930s.

Katz graduated from the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva High School in Kfar Haroeh, and went on to study in Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem.

1951

Ya'akov Dov "Ketzele" Katz (יעקב "כצל'ה" כץ) (born 29 September 1951) is an Israeli politician.

1970

In 1970, he enlisted in the IDF and volunteered to serve in Sayeret Shaked.

1971

He served under then OC Southern Command General Ariel Sharon in the 1971 campaign in Gaza.

1972

In 1972, he completed his officers' course with distinction, and commanded his own commando unit in Sayeret Shaked.

1973

In the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Katz served in a group of twelve reservists under the command of Amatzia Chen who carried out operations within the division of Ariel Sharon.

On the eighth day of the war, the force set out to locate Egyptian forces that had landed in helicopters in the deployment area to cross the Suez Canal.

Katz suffered a serious injury to his left thigh as a result of the impact of an RPG rocket on his APC, and was severely wounded.

It was during that period that he met his future wife Tami, a sociology student at Bar-Ilan University, who had volunteered to work in Beilinson Hospital helping nurse the worst wounded.

Akiva Margaliot released a CD called "Aseh" containing songs with musical arrangements composed by Katz.

Katz is married with seven children.

After six months in hospital, he returned on crutches to study four more years in Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav under Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook and Mazkir Bnei Akiva Shlomo Aviner.

1977

In 1977, he joined the group that established the Beit El settlement in the West Bank.

1978

In 1978, Katz, together with his Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, split with the Beit El group and founded a new settlement which was called Beit El B.

Katz was one of the original members of the Gush Emunim movement.

He and his family were among the first ten families to move to Beit El.Katz served as an assistant to Ariel Sharon when Sharon was Housing and Development Minister.

Katz was involved in the absorption of olim from the former Soviet Union, and was responsible for building more than 35,000 housing units in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.

These houses doubled the Jewish population beyond the Green Line.

Katz founded the Beit-El Yeshiva Center, an educational center comprising myriad institutions with over 1,200 students: the Beit El Yeshiva and Kollel, Teachers' College, Har Brakha Hesder Yeshiva, Bnei Tzvi Yeshiva High School, Ra'aya Academy for Young Women (high school), Beit El Pre-Military Academy, as well as Arutz Sheva.

1987

In 1987, Katz bought an oceangoing vessel upon which to set up a radio station, Arutz Sheva (Channel 7), as an alternative station with a national religious orientation.

The station never received a license to broadcast.

2002

After the station was shut down in 2002, he founded the weekly Israeli newspaper BeSheva.

2003

In 2003, he was convicted of operating an illegal radio station, and on two counts of perjury for having lied about the location of the broadcasts.

2006

In 2006, President Moshe Katsav pardoned him.

2008

He led the National Union party from 2008 to 2012, for whom he was a member of the Knesset, and is also the executive director of Beit El yeshiva Center Institutions and Arutz Sheva.

Ya'akov ("Ketzele") Katz was born in Jerusalem.

In December 2008, Katz became chairman of the National Union alliance.

2009

In the 2009 elections, the party won four seats, and Katz entered the Knesset.

2010

In a March 2010 proposal to curb illegal immigration and the increase of illegal work aliens, Katz has suggested that a "special town" be created in southern Israel that would be "less convenient and glamorous" then the currently attractive city of Tel Aviv.

He was the first MK to propose a Yom HaAliyah.

It would later be passed as law and established as the fifth Israeli Secular Israeli holiday.

2013

Katz lost his seat in the 2013 Israeli legislative election.