Previously a military and then civil pilot, he served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2015 to 2023 and has been Minister of Education since December 2022.

His paternal grandfather was Frederick Kisch, the highest-ranking Jew ever to serve in the British Army.

Through his mother, he is a descendant of Shmuel Salant, who served as Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem in the 19th century.

Kisch held British citizenship until having to renounce it in 2015 as a condition of being allowed to take up a seat in the Knesset.

[4] In March 2023 Kisch resigned from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law and was replaced by Sasson Guetta.