Hili Tropper

Yehiel Moshe "Hili" Tropper (יְחִיאֵל מֹשֶׁה "חִילִי" טְרוֹפֵּר; born 22 April 1978) is an Israeli educator, social worker and politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for National Unity and served as a minister without portfolio in the thirty-seventh government of Israel from 2023 to 2024. Tropper previously served as Minister of Culture and Sports from 2020 to 2022.

Biography
Tropper was born in Jerusalem in 1978, one of nine children of Rabbi Daniel Tropper. He attended Horev yeshiva and during his national service in the Israel Defense Forces, he was part of the Duvdevan Unit. He became a social worker and earned a BA in humanities from the Open University and an MA in Jewish history and education from the Lander Institute. He worked for the Bat Yam municipality and in 2007 also started to run the Branco Weiss school in Ramle, where he was the principal for five years.

From 2013 to 2015 Tropper served as senior advisor to Minister of Education Shai Piron, and in 2015 he was appointed Director of Education, Culture and Welfare in the Yeruham Municipality.

Tropper is married with four children and lives in Nes Harim.

Political career
Prior to the 2013 Knesset elections Tropper was placed twenty-third on the Labor Party list, but the party won only 15 seats. He was subsequently appointed as an advisor to Minister of Education Shai Piron. When Piron left the government in 2015, Tropper became Director of the Education, Welfare and Culture Division in Yeruham.

In the build-up to the April 2019 elections he joined the new Israel Resilience Party founded by his friend Benny Gantz. The party became part of the Blue and White, with Tropper placed twelfth on the alliance's list. He was elected to the Knesset as Blue and White won 35 seats. He was re-elected in September 2019 and March 2020. In May 2020 he was appointed Minister of Culture and Sports in the new government. He subsequently resigned his Knesset seat under the Norwegian Law and was replaced by Yorai Lahav-Hertzanu. He was re-elected to the Knesset in the March 2021 elections. After being appointed Minister of Culture and Sports in the new government, he resigned from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law and was replaced by Mufid Mari. Tropper served until the Inauguration of the Thirty-seventh government of Israel on 29 December 2022, and returned to the Knesset as a member of the Opposition National Unity Party.

On 12 October 2023, Tropper was sworn in as a minister without portfolio after his party joined the government following the outbreak of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.

Tropper resigned from the government in June 2024.