Uri Orbach

Uri Shraga Orbach (Hebrew: אורי שרגא אורבך; 28 March 1960 – 16 February 2015) was an Israeli Religious Zionist writer, journalist, and politician.

He served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home party, and as Minister of Pensioner Affairs.

He attended a Hesder yeshiva and did his national service in Israel Defense Forces in the IDF Armored Corps, where he served as a staff sergeant.

He later worked as a journalist, producing columns for Yedioth Ahronoth and serving as a co-host for the Army Radio mid-morning show The Last Word.

In January 2015 he took a leave of absence from politics for health reasons, to battle a chronic hematologic disease.