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List Of Members Of The Nineteenth Knesset
The members of the 19th Knesset were elected on 22 January 2013, and sworn in on 5 February. Knesset website Members of the Knesset Replacements See also *Thirty-third government of Israel
The thirty-third government of Israel, also known as the third Netanyahu government, was formed after the January 2013 Knesset elections, took office on 18 March 2013 and served until 14 May 2015. The Prime Minister was Benjamin Netanyahu of ...
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Knesset
The Knesset ( , ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Israel. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supervises the work of the government, among other things. In addition, the Knesset elects the State Comptroller of Israel, state comptroller. It also has the power to waive the immunity of its members, remove the president and the state comptroller from office, dissolve the government in a constructive vote of no confidence, and to dissolve itself and call new elections. The prime minister may also Dissolution of parliament, dissolve the Knesset. However, until an election is completed, the Knesset maintains authority in its current composition.The Knesset Jewish Virtual Library. Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Frenkel
Rina Frenkel (; born 17 September 1956) is an Israeli politician. She served as a member of the Knesset between 2013 and 2015. Biography Born in the Smolensk in the Soviet Union (today in Russia), Frenkel immigrated to Israel in 1990. A resident of Nahariya, Frenkel is employed as the assistant director of a training and employment organisation in Ma'alot-Tarshiha covering northern Israel.All the kingmaker’s men, and women Times of Israel, 23 January 2013 Prior to the she joined the new |
Tzipi Hotovely
Tzipura "Tzipi" Hotovely (; born 2 December 1978) is an Israeli diplomat and former politician who serves as the current Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom. She served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Minister of Settlement Affairs, and as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party. Biography Hotovely was born and raised in Rehovot, Israel, in a religious Jewish family. Her parents, Gabriel and Roziko Hotovely, were Georgian Jews who immigrated to Israel from the Georgian SSR prior to her birth. Hotovely was a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law in Tel Aviv University. Political career On 11 November 2008, Hotovely announced that she was joining Likud, and would compete in the party's primaries for the 2009 Knesset elections. She won 18th place on the party's list, and became a member of the Knesset when Likud won 27 seats. In 2009, she was the 18th Knesset's youngest member. She chaired the Knesset Committee on the Status of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ze'ev Elkin
Ze'ev Elkin (born 3 April 1971) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a Member of the Knesset for the New Hope (Israel), New Hope Party. He was previously a member of the Knesset for Kadima, Likud and the National Unity (Israel), National Unity Party and served as Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister of Israel, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ministry of Construction (Israel), Minister of Housing and Construction, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Ministry of Environmental Protection (Israel), Minister of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Higher Education, Minister of Higher Education and Ministry of Water Resources (Israel), Minister of Water Resources. Biography Born Vladimir Borisovich Elkin to a secular Russian-speaking Jewish family in Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (now part of an independent Ukraine), Elkin became interested in Judaism, joined the Bnei Akiva movement, and learned Heb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (; born Moshe Smilansky; 24 June 1950) is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation on 20 May 2016. Ya'alon ran for Knesset in 2019 as the number three member of the Blue and White party, a joint list created by the merging of the Israel Resilience Party, led by former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, and Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid. Ya'alon briefly served as the number 2 on the Yesh Atid-Telem list that was created following the 2020 Israeli legislative election. Ya'alon retired from politics in the lead up to the 2021 election after testing the waters by splitting his Telem party from Yesh Atid. Early life Ya'alon was born Moshe Smilansky, the son of David Smilansky and Batya Silber. His father, a factory worker, had moved to Mandatory Palestine with his parents from Soviet Ukraine in 1925, and was a veteran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Danon
Danny Danon (; born 8 May 1971) is an Israeli politician and diplomat. A member of the Likud party, he served in the Knesset from 2009 to 2015 and from 2022 to 2024. From 2015 to 2020, Danon served as Israel's 17th Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and was reappointed to the role in 2024.i24, "Danny DAnon returns to UN as Israel's ambassador"' 29 August 2024. Retrieved 21 August 2024. The former leader of the world organization, Danon was elected Chairman of the World Likud. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yisrael Katz (politician Born 1955)
Israel Katz (; born 21 September 1955) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud currently serving as Minister of Defense and a member of the Security Cabinet of Israel. Katz has been recognized for his role in modernizing Israel’s transportation infrastructure, including the expansion of highways, the development of high-speed rail, and reforms to Israel’s ports that increased competition and reduced shipping costs. Katz has previously served as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Transport, Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Energy, Minister of Finance, and twice as Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 5 November 2024, it was announced that he would be nominated by Prime Minister Netanyahu as Defense Minister after Yoav Gallant was dismissed. Biography Israel Katz was born in Ashkelon. His parents, Meir Katz and Malka ((Nira) née Deutsch), were Holocaust survivors from the region of Maramureș, Romania. He was raised on Moshav Kfar Ahim. He was dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvan Shalom
Zion Silvan Shalom (; born 4 August 1958) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including Deputy leaders of Israel#Vice Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister and Ministry of Interior (Israel), Minister of the Interior. He resigned on 24 December 2015 following allegations of sexual harassment. Later on, the Attorney-General closed this investigation and said these claims were unsubstantiated. Early life Shalom was born in Gabès, Tunisia on 4 August 1958 to a family that traced its roots to the Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Beit Shalom dynasty. His family aliyah, moved to Israel in 1959, settling in the city of Beersheba in the Negev. On 3 November 1964, when Shalom was six years old, his father Shimon Shalom, a bank manager and a member of the Betar movement, was killed during the course of a bungled bank robbery. The murder was notoriously known as the first committed in a bank r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilad Erdan
Gilad Menashe Erdan ( ; born 30 September 1970) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 2020 through 2024. Erdan previously served as Ambassador of Israel to the United States. He was also a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2003 to 2020, and holder of several ministerial positions, including Minister of Environmental Protection (2009–2013), Communications (2013–2014), Home Front Defense (2013–2014), Interior (2014–2015), Minister of Public Security (2015–2020), Minister of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy (2015–2020) and Minister of Regional Cooperation (2020). Background and personal life Gilad Menashe Erdan was born in Ashkelon. He is of Romanian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent. He attained the rank of captain during his military service in the Adjutant Corps of the IDF. After his military service, he studied law at Bar-Ilan University, gaining an LL.B., and started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who has served as the prime minister of Israel since 2022, having previously held the office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history, having served a total of over 17 years. Born to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised in West Jerusalem and the United States. He returned to Israel in 1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces and served in the Sayeret Matkal special forces as a captain before being honorably discharged. In 1972, he returned to the United States, and after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Netanyahu worked for the Boston Consulting Group before moving back to Israel in 1978 to found the Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute. Between 1984 and 1988 Netanyahu was Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. Netanyahu rose to prominence after election as chair of Likud in 1993, becoming leader of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Likud
Likud (, ), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement (), is a major Right-wing politics, right-wing, political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon in an alliance with several right-wing parties. Likud's landslide victory in the 1977 Israeli legislative election, 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had lost power. In addition, it was the first time in Israel that a right-wing party received the most votes. After ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the 1992 Israeli legislative election, Knesset election in 1992. Likud's candidate Benjamin Netanyahu won the vote for Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister in 1996 Israeli prime ministerial election, 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 Israeli legislative election, 1996 elections following Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzak Rabin's assassination. Netany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronen Hoffman
Ronen Pinchas Hoffman (; born 19 July 1963) is an Israeli academic, politician and diplomat. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2015 and was Ambassador to Canada from 2021 to 2023. Biography Hoffman was born into a farming family in Afula,Meet Dr. Ronen Hoffman: Israel's new ambassador to Canada Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, 10 January 2022 and grew up in the city.Meet the MK: Ronen Hoffman The Jerusalem Post, 12 February 2013 After his |
