He serves as the Deputy minister of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and has been elected to the Knesset since 2019.

From age 9–14, he lived at Zion Blumenthal Orphanage, and later studied at the branch of the Itri Yeshiva in Beit Shemesh.

Over the years, he moved to public sector activity, and between 1993 and 2018, he served as a member of the Beit Shemesh City Council, in charge of the Engineering and Construction Division of the municipality, the Deputy Mayor, and his place on behalf of Shas.

[4] In the local elections in 2018, Abutbul ran for a third term, and lost, by a razor-thin gap of 533 votes, to Aliza Bloch.

[7][8] Abutbul served on various committees during his tenure in the Knesset, most notably chairing the "Lobby for the Preservation of the Sabbath", leading 30+ Knesset members seeking to preserve the status quo of the sanctity of Saturday as the day of rest of the Jewish State of Israel.