Yosef Taieb (; born 15 February 1981) is an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Shas.
Taieb was elected to the municipal council of Kiryat Ye'arim. In 2018 he became deputy mayor of the council. He was placed fifteenth on the Shas list for the April 2019 elections, 21st Knesset elections: Shas list Central Elections Committee but the party won only eight seats. He was placed twelfth for the September 2019 elections, 22nd Knesset elections: Shas list Central Elections Committee in which Shas won nine seats. Although he missed out again in the March 2020 elections in which he was placed eleventh and Shas again won nine seats, he entered the Knesset on 1 July 2020 as a replacement for Yoav Ben-Tzur, who had resigned his seat under the Norwegian Law after being appointed to the cabinet. Placed tenth on the Shas list for the March 2021 elections, he lost his seat as the party won nine seats. He regained his seat when Aryeh Deri resigned his own seat under the Norwegian Law; he left the Knesset again when Deri returned to the legislature after losing his ministerial position. When Deri resigned from the Knesset in January 2022, Taieb returned for a third spell.
Ahead of the formation of the thirty-seventh government of Israel, Taieb was selected to head the Knesset Committee on Education, Culture and Sports. He resigned from his chairmanship in October 2025.
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