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David Rotem
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2007–2015 | Yisrael Beiteinu |
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| Born | 11 January 1949 Bnei Brak, Israel |
| Died | 8 June 2015 (aged 66) Efrat, West Bank |
David Rotem (Hebrew: דוד רותם, 11 January 1949 – 8 June 2015) was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2007 and 2015.
Biography
Rotem was born in Bnei Brak and grew up in Jerusalem. He attended Horev, a religious elementary School and the Horev Yeshiva High School. From 1966 to 1967 he studied at Bell Lane, a Jewish school in London. Between 1967 and 1971 he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an LLB.
In 1972 he became an assistant at the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, a position he held until 1977. Between 1978 and 1980 he worked as a lecturer on legislative law at the same institution. He has also served as a member of the executive committee of Sha'arei Tzedek Medical Center, and deputy chairman of the Central Elections Committee.
He spoke Yiddish and English, and was nicknamed Dudu. He served on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations.
Political career
Formerly a member of the National Religious Party, he was placed twelfth on the Yisrael Beiteinu list for the 2006 Knesset elections. Although the party won only eleven seats, Rotem entered the Knesset on 16 January 2007 as a replacement for the deceased Yuri Stern. He retained his seat in the 2009 elections, for which he was placed eighth on the party's list. He was re-elected for a third term in the 2013 elections on the joint Likud–Yisrael Beiteinu list.
On 6 January 2015 Rotem announced that he planned to leave politics and would not contest the 2015 elections. He died at home from cardiac arrest on 8 June 2015.
Personal life
At the time of his death, Rotem lived in the Israeli settlement of Efrat, and was married with five children.
