Daniel Reuwen Jositsch[4] (German pronunciation: [daˈni̯eːl ˈʀɔʏ̯vn joˈzɪtʃ]; born 25 March 1965) is a Swiss attorney and politician who currently serves on the Council of States (Switzerland) for the Social Democratic Party representing the Canton of Zürich since 2015.
In 2022 and 2023 he declared candidacy for Federal Council (Switzerland) but both times was not officially nominated by his party.
[8][9] His paternal great-grandfather, Benjamin Josselowitsch, became a Swiss citizen in 1913 by taking municipal citizenship in Geroldswil.
Although the Judaism does not define my everyday life, but as a parliamentarian I take myself to the interests of the Jewish minority.Jositsch was raised in the Limmat Valley and completed his Matura in 1984 at Kantonsschule Stadelhofen.
End of October 2015 Jositsch announced to stand for the five-person chairmanship of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), the largest Jewish community in Switzerland,[16] on 2 December 2015.