Mazor Bahaina

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Mazor Bahaina

Date of birth	1974
Year of Aliyah	1982
Knesset(s)	17th (current)
Party	Shas

Rabbi Mazor Bahaina (Hebrew: מזור בהיינה‎, born 1974 in Ethiopia) is a kes, an ordained rabbi, an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for Shas. He was inducted into the Knesset after Shlomo Benizri was suspended in April 2008, after being convicted. In the 2006 Israeli legislative elections, Bahaina was 13th on the Shas list.

Bahaina's aliyah started with a trek on foot with his family across the Sudanese border after which they waited for about a year and a half for immigration approval. On arriving to Israel, his family moved to Or Akiva and later to Kiryat Gat. Bahaina studied in few yeshivas and became an ordained rabbi. After moving to Beersheba, he was worked in several socially-oriented positions to support immigrants from Ethiopia, eventually becoming the head rabbi of the ex-Ethiopian Jewish community in Beersheba numbering about 10,000 and a member of the city local council.^[1]