Ariel Atias (Hebrew: אריאל אטיאס, born 13 November 1970) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas, and as the country's Minister of Housing and Construction.
He was also manager of Shas' kosher supervision organization, Badatz Beit Yosef.
He retained his seat in the 2009 elections, having been placed second on the Shas list, and was appointed Minister of Housing and Construction in the Netanyahu government.
He resigned from the Knesset in June 2014 in order to take a break from politics, and was replaced by Yoav Ben-Tzur.
[6] He also created the number portability reform in which a user is given the rights to his cellular number, thus allowing users more freedom to move from one company to another, encouraging competition between cellular companies[7] Another one of his initiatives as Minister of Communications was opening the market for Mobile virtual network operators.