Rabbi Haim (Emile) Amsalem (Hebrew: חַיִּים (אֶמִיל) אַמְסָלֶם; born 12 October 1959) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset.

He was later appointed as rabbi of the Sephardic Jewish community, "Heichal Haness" in Geneva, Switzerland, a position he held until his entry into the Knesset.

In the 2013 elections, the new party failed to cross the electoral threshold of 2%, and Amsalem subsequently lost his Knesset seat.

On 15 September 2014, the Yeshiva World News website reported that Amsalem would be running in the upcoming elections for the post of Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.

[7] He was even more lenient in the case of an IDF soldier, with Amsalem considering the army service itself to be the 'acceptance of the mitzvot', a key component in the conversion process.

[10][11] Defenders of Amsalem say that there is an ideal in the Haredi world to not be controversial and to follow the group think, and that this has only entered the religious sphere recently.