Rabbi Shmuel Halpert (Hebrew: שמואל הלפרט, born 5 February 1939) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Haredi party Agudat Yisrael (in which he represents the Vizhnitz Hasidim),[1] part of the United Torah Judaism alliance.

For the 1992 elections, Agudat Israel formed an alliance with Degel HaTorah, which included a seat rotation agreement.

After United Torah Judaism split towards the end of the Knesset term in 2005, Yisrael Eichler resigned as an MK, and was replaced by Halpert as part of another rotation agreement.

Like many other religious politicians in Israel, he objected to the 2006 Jerusalem gay pride parade, asking, "Have we become like Sodom?

"[2] He also caused controversy when he supported corporal punishment and said during a Knesset committee meeting that he hit to his own children [3] and calling for the separation of the sexes in the Western Wall Plaza.