Yonatan Yosef, is a Jerusalem rabbi,[1][better source needed] a former spokesman for Jewish settlers in Sheikh Jarrah,[2] and right-wing activist for the Judaization of East Jerusalem.

[6][7] In 2018, he was elected to the city council, being in the second place in "Meuchadim" list headed by Aryeh King, which won two of the 31 seats in the counsil.

[8] In the 2019 general elections, he was placed 3 in list of Yachad party headed by Eli Yishai, but the party withdrew few days before the election.

[9] Yosef obtained ownership of a house in part of Sheikh Jarrah in which a Jewish neighborhood existed prior to the 1948 war, and that the Jordanian authorities rented to a family of Palestinian refugees.

[10] In reference to Sheikh Jarrah, in the 2012 short film My Neighbourhood, Yosef stated that: "The Bible says that this area and this country belong to the Jewish people."