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List Of Members Of The Twenty-fourth Knesset
The members of the 24th Knesset were elected on 23 March 2021. The 24th Knesset dissolved itself on 30 June 2022 triggering snap elections held on 1 November 2022. Members of the Knesset Replacements See also *Thirty-sixth government of Israel The thirty-sixth government of Israel, or the Bennett–Lapid government, was the cabinet of Israel that was formed on 13 June 2021 after the 2021 Israeli legislative election, 2021 Knesset elections. On 2 June 2021 a coalition agreement was s ... * Party lists for the 2021 Israeli legislative election Notes References External links {{Current MKs 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Israeli Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in Israel on 23 March 2021 to elect the 120 List of members of the twenty-fourth Knesset, members of the 24th Knesset. It was the fourth Knesset election in two years, amidst the continued 2018–2022 Israeli political crisis, political deadlock following the previous three elections in April 2019 Israeli legislative election, April 2019, September 2019 Israeli legislative election, September 2019 and 2020 Israeli legislative election, 2020. Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett announced that they had formed a rotation government on 2 June 2021, which was approved on 13 June 2021. Background According to the coalition agreement signed between Likud and Blue and White (political alliance), Blue and White in 2020, elections were to be held 36 months after the swearing-in of the Thirty-fifth government of Israel, 35th government, making 23 May 2023 the last possible election date. However, Israeli law stipulates that if the 2020 state budget was not passed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofir Akunis
Ofir Akunis (; born 28 May 1973) is an Israeli politician and diplomat. Since May 2024 he has been the Israeli Consul General in New York, his first diplomatic posting. As a politician, Akunis served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and was the Minister of Science and Technology from 2015 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024. He previously held the posts of Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services in 2020 and Minister of Regional Cooperation in 2020-2021. Biography Early life Akunis was born in Tel Aviv. His grandfather was a Greek-Jew who immigrated to Israel from Saloniki in 1934 and was a member of the Likud Party himself. His mother immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1957. He attended the Herzliya Hebrew High School between 1987 and 1991 and served as youth correspondent for the weekly " Ma'ariv LaNoar" magazine. Akunis' mandatory military service was spent as a correspondent for the Chief Education Officer of the Education and Youth Corps. After his army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fateen Mulla
Fateen Mulla (, ; born 15 June 1960) is an Israeli Druze politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in two spells between 2019 and 2022 and served as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. Biography Mulla was born in Yarka and attended school in the village. During his national service in the Israel Defense Forces, he served in the Sword Battalion, receiving an injury that led to him being recognised as a disabled veteran. He remained in the army following the completion of his national service, eventually becoming a lieutenant colonel in the Northern Command.Fateen Mulla: Particulars Knesset In the early 1980s he studied at the |
Keti Shitrit
Katrin "Keti" Shitrit-Peretz (; born 22 January 1960) is an Israeli politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Likud. She previously held the role from 2019 to 2022. Biography Katrin Peretz was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to a Moroccan Jewish family. Her family immigrated to Israel in 1962 when she was an eighteen month old baby, initially living in a ma'abara in Lod. She was a participant in the Betar youth movement and received a BA in political science and an MA in public administration at Bar-Ilan University, also gaining a teacher training certificate at Beit Berl Academic College. She worked in schools in Beit Shemesh and Dimona and established a school for modern dance in Kfar Saba. She also headed the office of Beit Shemesh mayor Daniel Vaknin between 1993 and 2008, before serving as the city's Financial Director from 2008 until 2010, during which time she also lectured at Bar-Ilan University and the College of Management Academic Studies. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Levy-Abekasis
Orly Levy-Abekasis (; born 11 November 1973) is an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset. Formerly a model, Levy-Abekasis first entered the Knesset in 2009 as a representative of Yisrael Beiteinu, but left the party in 2017 to sit as an independent. In 2019, she formed her own party, Gesher, to contest the April 2019 elections. Although the party failed to win a seat, she returned to the Knesset following the September 2019 elections, in which Gesher ran together with the Labor Party. In May 2020, she was appointed by Prime Minister Netanyahu as the newly created Minister for Community Empowerment and Advancement. Levy-Abekasis worked as a model and a local television host, before following her father into politics. Levy-Abekasis's political views are primarily focused on social issues and issues of economic justice. Whilst a member of Yisrael Beiteinu, she was one of two governing coalition members to abstain from the controversial Nation State Law. Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Zohar
Makhlouf "Miki" Zohar (; born 28 March 1980) is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as the Minister of Culture and Sports in the thirty-seventh government. Zohar previously served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and chairman of Global Likud. Biography Makhlouf Zohar was born in Beersheba, and raised in Kiryat Gat. His father Eli was an immigrant from Morocco and his mother Dina was from Tunisia. Zohar served in the Israel Defense Forces and reached the rank of Sergeant. He then studied law, gaining an LLB from the College of Law and Business and an MA from Bar-Ilan University, and worked in real estate. Zohar is married to Yamit and has four children. Political career In 2005 Zohar was elected to Kiryat Gat City Council. In 2013, he was elected head of Kiryat Gat's Likud list in 2013, and became Deputy Mayor. Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections he was placed twenty-second on the Likud list, a slot reserved for a candidate from the Negev area. He was elected to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlomo Karhi
Shlomo Karhi (; born 6 April 1982) is an Israeli politician and academic. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and serving as the Minister of Communications in the thirty-seventh government. Karhi first joined the Knesset in the 2019 elections in the 25th place in the Likud party. In the 2022 elections he was placed 13th in the Likud party. Early life and education Karhi was born in Ramat Gan as the eldest of seventeen siblings in a religious family, to mother Mazal and father Rabbi David Karhi, an Israeli-born Sabra of Tunisian Jewish heritage from Djerba. At the age of four Shlomo Karhi moved to Zimrat, a religious moshav. He was educated at the Kisse Rahamim and Mercaz HaRav yeshivas. He subsequently served in the religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion during his national service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), before earning a BA in management accounting and information systems at the Jerusalem College of Technology. Karhi received a master's degree and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keren Barak
Keren Barak (; born 20 September 1972) is an Israeli lobbyist and politician. She was a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2019 to 2022. Biography Born in Haifa to parents who had immigrated from Egypt and Poland, Barak served as an infantry instructor and commanded new recruits and armoured personnel carriers during her national service in the Israel Defense Forces.Keren Barak: Particulars Knesset She studied for a BA in communications and administration at the and then earned an MBA at the |
David Bitan
David Hai Bitan (; born 8 April 1960) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset from the Likud party. During 2016 and 2017 he served as the Chairman of the Coalition and Chairman of the Likud party in the Knesset, and in the 23rd Knesset served as Chairman of the Immigration and Absorption Committee. Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit announced on 26 January 2020 that Bitan would be indicted for "bribery, fraud and breach of trust, as well as money laundering and tax offenses" following a hearing. Early and personal life Bitan was born in Kenitra in Morocco. His family immigrated to Israel when he was five. During his national service in the Israel Defense Forces he served as a combat medic. He then studied law at the Tel Aviv University. After graduating with an L.L.B in 1987 and receiving a law license, he worked as an attorney and later opened his own law firm. Bitan is married to Hagit and they have two daughters. Politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoav Kisch
Yoav Kisch (; born 6 December 1968) is an Israeli politician. 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. He also held the post of Minister of Regional Cooperation from 2022 to 2023. Biography Early life and education Kisch was born and raised in Tel Aviv. 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. He holds an MBA from INSEAD. Army service Kisch enlisted the IDF's Air force in 1985. He finished his Kurs tais (Flight training) as a fighter pilot in 1988 and began his service on the F-16 Falcon. He finished his reserve duty service in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eti Atiya
Eti Hava Atiya (; born 12 February 1960) is an Israeli politician who serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud since 2019. Early life and education Eti Hava Atiya was born in Lod, Israel, on 12 February 1960. Her family originates from Tunisian Jews in Djerba. She graduated from Ono Academic College with a Bachelor of Laws, from Bar-Ilan University with a Master of Arts in internal auditing and a Bachelor of Social Science. Career In the 1980s, Atiya was a welfare official and assistant to the deputy secretary of the National Union of Israel Aerospace Industries Employees (IAI). She was chief of staff to the IAI secretary from 1993 to 2015. She worked for the Office of Internal Auditors from 2007 to 2018, and was chief of staff to the Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Service from 2015 to 2018. Likud placed Atiya as the 21st person on their electoral list for the April 2019 election. During her tenure in the Knesset she served as head of the Foreign Workers Commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofir Katz
Ofir Katz (; born 19 May 1980) is a right-wing Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and the parliamentary whip of the coalition government. Biography Born in Afula on 19 May 1980, Katz joined Likud during at the age of 18, and started working for the office of Benjamin Netanyahu when Likud were the opposition party in the late 2000s. When Likud became the ruling party after the 2009 elections, he became an advisor to Minister of Culture and Sport Limor Livnat, before starting to work for Gilad Erdan when he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Public Security. In the build-up to the April 2019 elections, he was placed twentieth on the party's list, the slot reserved for the Galilee and Valleys. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
