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22nd Knesset
The members of the 22nd Knesset were elected on 17 September 2019. Members of the Knesset Replacements Notes See also * September 2019 Israeli legislative election References {{Knesset members 22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with the exception of checks and balances from the courts and local governments). The Knesset passes all laws, elects the president and prime minister (although the latter is ceremonially appointed by the President), approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government, among other things. In addition, the Knesset elects the 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 dissolve the Knesset. However, until an election is completed, the Knesset maintains authority in its current composition. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvi Hauser
Zvi Hauser ( he, צבי האוזר; born 5 July 1968) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Knesset for New Hope and also served as an MK for Blue and White and Derekh Eretz from 2019 to 2021. Biography Zvi Hauser was born in Ramat Gan to Mordechai and Yehudit Hauser, the youngest of three. He was born with a heart defect and went through successful open heart surgery at the age of eight. At the age of eleven he played basketball for Maccabi Ramat Gan. He attended Blich high school in Ramat Gan, where he served as the national chairman of the youth wing of the Tehiya Party. Hauser enlisted as part of Israel's mandatory military service and served in the IDF's School of Leadership Development. Among his roles there he also served as the schools commander of the public diplomacy unit. After his release from the IDF, he became a professional assistant to the Director-General of the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, Shmuel Slavin. Following that he worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alon Schuster
Alon Natan Schuster ( he, אַלּוֹן נָתָן שׁוּסְטֶר, born 2 March 1957) is an Israeli politician. He was mayor of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council between 2002 and 2018 and the Minister of Agriculture from 2020 to 2021. He has been Deputy Minister of Defense since 2021. Biography Schuster was born in kibbutz Mefalsim in 1957; his father was from Germany and mother from Argentina. After leaving school he did a Service Year in Sderot before enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces for his national service, joining the Nahal Brigade. He lost the sight in one eye in 1981 after being wounded during preparations for the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war he studied at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics. He subsequently worked at the Sha'ar HaNegev Education Centre as a teacher and deputy principal. During the 1990s he served as secretary of Mefalsim. In 1998 he ran for election to become mayor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Ben-Barak
Ram "Rami" Ben-Barak (, born 1 April 1958) is a former member of the Israeli security forces and an Israeli politician. He served as deputy director of the Mossad and director general of the Ministry of Intelligence Services and the Ministry of Strategic Affairs. He has served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid since April 2019. Early life Barak was born and raised in Nahalal, Israel, to a Jewish family. In 1976 he joined the IDF and served as a combat soldier and as an officer in the Sayeret Matkal commando unit. In his last position he served as commander of the Counter Terrorism Division until his release in 1981. Career In 1984 he joined Mossad. In April 1991, he was arrested in Cyprus along with three other agents of the Mossad, posing as tourists during the operation to install listening devices at the Iranian embassy in Nicosia. They were convicted of trespassing, fined and returned to Israel. From 2009 to 2011 he served as deputy head of the Mossad. He was loane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadeer Mreeh
Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh ( ar, غدير كمال مريح, , , born 21 June 1984) is an Israeli Druze politician and journalist. She became the first Druze woman to anchor a Hebrew-language news program on Israeli television in 2017. In April 2019, she was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Blue and White alliance, making history as the first Druze woman to become a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. She left Blue and White on 29 March 2020 and joined Yesh Atid. In June 2021, she joined the Jewish Agency for Israel and was sent to Washington D.C. as a senior emissary for the organization. Biography Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh was born in Daliyat al-Karmel, a village on Mount Carmel, to a Druze family. Her father is a building contractor. Mreeh remembers her father decorating their car with Israeli flags every Independence Day. Kamal-Mreeh has been interested in broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pnina Tamano-Shata
Pnina Tamano-Shata ( he, פְּנִינָה תַּמֶנוֹ־שֶׁטֶה; born 1 November 1981) is an Israeli lawyer, journalist, and politician. The first Ethiopian-born woman to enter the Knesset in 2013, in 2020 she also became the first Ethiopian-born minister after being appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption. Early life Tamano-Shata was born in Wuzaba, a village located near the city of Gondar in the Amhara Region of northern Ethiopia. Her family immigrated to Israel when she was three during the evacuation of the Ethiopian Jews from Sudan nicknamed Operation Moses.All the kingmaker’s men, and women Times of Israel, 23 January 2013 She, her five brothers, and her father were among almost 7,000 Ethiopian Jews airlifted out of the country by |
Omer Yankelevich
Omer Yankelevich ( he, עוֹמֶר יַנְקֵלֵבִיץ׳, born 25 May 1978) is an Israeli attorney, educator, social activist, and politician. She was the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and was a Member of the Knesset for the Blue and White from 2019 to 2021. She is a co-founder of the "Just Begun Foundation", which sponsors social initiatives to help integrate peripheral and marginalized populations in Israel, with an emphasis on the Haredi sector. In 2019, she joined the Israel Resilience Party, which is part of the Blue and White political alliance, and was placed #23 on the faction's list for the April 2019 Knesset election. The Blue and White alliance gained 35 seats in the election, resulting in Yankelevich becoming a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. In the national unity government which comprised the thirty-fifth government of Israel, Yankelev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Levy
Mickey Levy ( he, מִיקִי לֵוִי, born 21 June 1951) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and is a former Speaker of the Knesset. He served as Deputy Minister of Finance between 2013 and 2014. Before entering politics, he was a police officer. Biography Levy was born in Jerusalem to immigrant parents who were Sephardic and Kurdish Jewish origin from Cizre, Turkey. He did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces in the Paratroopers Brigade. After being discharged from the military, he joined the Israel Police and held a series of command positions. He served as head of Jerusalem branch of the Israel Police between 2000 and 2004, winning the Knight of Good Government award in 2002. After retiring he worked as the Israeli police attaché in Washington, D.C. until 2007. He also gained a BA in political science from the University of Haifa and an MEd from the University of Derby, as well as serving as CEO of the Egg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elazar Stern
Elazar Stern ( he, אֶלְעָזָר שְׁטֵרְן) is an Israeli politician and military general. He was a major general (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces, serving as Head of the Manpower Directorate, commander of the IDF Officers Training School, and Chief Education Officer, as well as a combat soldier and commander in the Paratroopers Brigade. He has served as a Member of Knesset for eight years, first, as a member of the Hatnuah party, and then in 2015 he joined the Yesh Atid, and since 2021 is serving as the Minister of Intelligence. Early life and family Stern was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv to Sara and Levi, both of whom are Holocaust survivors. He and his wife Dorit have five children and fourteen grandchildren. They live in Mitzpe Hoshaya, a community in the Galilee they founded together with friends some 30 years ago. Education Stern holds a bachelor's degree in Land of Israel studies and economics from Bar-Ilan University, an Executive Master of Business Admini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yizhar Shai
Yizhar Nitzan Shai ( he, יזהר ניצן שי, born 16 July 1963) is an Israeli businessman and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Blue and White between 2019 and 2021, and as Minister of Science & Technology from 2020 to 2021. Biography Shai was born in kibbutz Ein HaShlosha to parents from Argentina. His family moved to Jerusalem in the mid-1960s, where he attended the Hebrew Gymnasium school. In 1981 he started his national service in the Israel Defense Forces, joining the Paratroopers Brigade and serving in the 1982 Lebanon War. He left the army in 1985 with the rank of lieutenant. He later gained an electrical engineering certificate from the Technion and subsequently worked in the high-tech sector. He established the Business Layers firm in 1998, serving as CEO until it was sold to Netegrity in 2003. In 2006 he joined Canaan Partners as a partner, working there until 2014 when he established Canaan Partners Israel. Prior to the April 2019 elections h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asaf Zamir
Asaf Zamir ( he, אסף זמיר, born 31 August 1980) is an Israeli politician and diplomat. He served as Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv from 2008 until 2013 and Acting Mayor in charge of education from 2013 to 2018. He was elected to the Knesset in 2019, serving in two spells until 2021. He also held the post of Minister of Tourism from May to October 2020. He is currently Consul General in New York. Biography Zamir was born in Ganei Yehuda to Galia and Muki Zamir. His family lived in Sarasota, Florida in the United States for four years during his childhood. After they returned to Israel, he attended the A.D. Gordon school and Tichon Ironi Daled, and was a member of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed and the Hebrew Scouts. During his national service in the Israel Defense Forces he served in the central control unit of the Israeli Air Force. After graduating from Tel Aviv University with a law degree he interned with Naschitz Brandes Amir law firm and qualified as a lawyer. In the 2008 muni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoel Razvozov
Yoel Razvozov (; born 5 July 1980) is an Israeli judoka and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid in several spells, and as the Minister of Tourism from 2021 to 2022. Early life Born Konstantin Anatolyevich Razvozov (russian: Константин Анатольевич Развозов) in Birobidzhan in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet Union, Razvozov began training in judo at age 6. His family immigrated to Israel when he was 11, in 1991, at the fall of the Soviet Union. He joined the Israeli judo team and became an Israeli judo champion at the age of 16.All the kingmaker’s men, and women Times of Israel, 23 January 2013 Athletic career In the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
