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Full Likud List For Israeli Legislative Election, 2015
# Benjamin Netanyahu # Gilad Erdan # Yuli Edelstein # Yisrael Katz # Miri Regev # Silvan Shalom # Moshe Ya'alon # Ze'ev Elkin # Danny Danon # Yariv Levin # Benny Begin # Tzachi Hanegbi # Yuval Steinitz # Gila Gamliel # Ofir Akunis # David Bitan # Haim Katz # Jackie Levy # Yoav Kish # Tzipi Hotovely # Dudu Amsalem # Miki Zohar # Anat Berko # Ayoob Kara # Nava Boker # Avi Dichter # Avraham Nagosa # Nurit Koren # Yaron Mazuz # Oren Hazan # Sharren Haskel # Amir Ohana # Yehoshua Yehuda Glick # Osnat Mark # Ziv Agmon # Pinhas Adin # Michael Ratzon # Shevach Stern # Yigal Amir Whiteman # Patin Molah # Ayelet Galili # Naftali Naor # Hassan Hayav # Ayala Shtagman # Aryeh Netanel Lipo # Shimon Israel # Jackie Pinto # Silva Mizrahi # Gil Hadad # Roni Stern # Gadi Bashari # Ori Prague # Tali Argaman # Yair Davidi # Ariel Bochnik # Michel Buscaglia # Gavi Kadosh # Shimon Shetrit # Elad Zamir # Haruah Mimon # Chaim Zeev Friedrich # Tzadok Cohen # Mimon Toledano # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (; ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is currently serving as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of Likud – National Liberal Movement. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history, having served for a total of 15 years. He was also the first prime minister to be born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence. Born in Tel Aviv to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised both in Jerusalem, and for a time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He returned to Israel in 1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces. He became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces and took part in several missions, achieving the rank of captain before being honorably discharged. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Netanyahu became an economic consultant for the Boston C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Levy
Jackie Levy ( he, ז'קי לוי, born 28 October 1960) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as Deputy Minister of Construction, before being elected mayor of Beit She'an in 2018. Biography Levy was born in Beit She'an, the second child of Likud politician David Levy. After doing his IDF national service in the paratroopers, he became assistant to the mayor of Ramat Yishai. In 1989, he was elected to Beit She'an City Council as part of the Lev faction, and served as Deputy Mayor between 1992 and 1998. In 2002, he was injured in a terrorist attack on the city's branch of the Likud party. In the same year, he became the city's mayor, serving until 2013.Former Beit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharren Haskel
Sharren Haskel ( he, שָׁרֶן הַשְׂכֵּל, born 4 March 1984) is an Israeli politician. She is a member of the Knesset for the National Unity Party, having previously served as a member of Likud and for New Hope. When she was first elected, she was the youngest member of Likud and the second youngest member of the 20th Knesset. Biography Sharren Haskel was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a Jewish family, the middle of three sisters. Her father, Amir, was born in Israel, and is from a family of Palmach veterans from moshav Tzofit. Her mother, Fabienne, was born in Morocco. Amir and Fabienne met in Paris and moved to Toronto, after Fabienne received a job offer as an English teacher. Her family moved to Israel a year after her birth. She was raised in Kfar Saba and studied theatre at Katznelson high school, where she was a leader in scouts, and later transferred to Ankori high school, where she studied Cinema. At the age of 18, Haskel enlisted in the Israel Borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oren Hazan
Oren Asaf Hazan ( he, אורן אסף חזן, born 28 October 1981) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019. Early life The son of former Likud Knesset member Yehiel Hazan, Oren served in the Israeli Air Force during his IDF national service. He studied law at Ono Academic College, where he was chairman of the student union. He later managed a casino in Bulgaria.Siblings, lawyers, activists and a ‘Godfather': New Knesset lawmakers have colorful pasts ''Times of Israel'', 31 March 2015 Public career Prior to the |
Yaron Mazuz
Yaron Mazuz ( he, ירון מזוז, born 11 July 1962) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019. He previously served as Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection. Biography Mazuz was born in Haifa to parents who had immigrated from Tunisia. He was elected to Kiryat Bialik City Council in 2008, and served as the city's Deputy Mayor. Prior to the 2015 elections he was placed 29th on the Likud list, and was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats. On 14 June he was appointed Deputy Interior Minister in the new government. In June 2015 he told Arab MKs “We are doing you people a favor by even allowing you to be seated here – terrorists won't be allowed to sit here,” and asked them to give up their Israeli citizenship. Several left-wing members of Knesset demanded an apology from Mazuz, but he refused to retract his statement, adding that the proposal to revoke the ban on citizenship for Palestinians was “written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurit Koren
Nurit Koren ( he, נורית קורן, born 24 February 1960) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019. Biography Nurit Koren was born in Jerusalem to Yemenite Jewish immigrants, and has four brothers. Her father was a laborer, truck driver, and taxi driver. Her family was traditional, and Koren attended a Bais Yaakov school. In 1971, her family moved to Kiryat Arba, and she later studied at the Givat Washington religious youth village. At age 17, she married Eli Koren, and relocated with him to Herzliya, where she studied at the Rishonim High School until she became pregnant. Later, at age 38, she began studying at the Open University of Israel, and received a BA in Social Sciences and Humanities, graduating with honors, then studied law, receiving a BA in Law from Ono Academic College and an MA in Law from Bar-Ilan University. Koren lives in Herzliya, and has four children. Political career Koren worked as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Nagosa
Avraham Neguise ( he, אַבְרָהָם נֶגוּסֵה, born 10 February 1958) is an Israeli politician and activist for the Falash Mura community. Biography Avraham Neguise was born in the city of Gondar in northern Ethiopia, where he worked as a shepherd. Neguise immigrated to Israel in 1985. He earned a BA and MA in social work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LLB from Sha'arei Mishpat College, an MA in initiatives and renewal from the Swinburne University of Technology and a PhD in education from the University of Sussex. Neguise is married with two children, and lives in the Pisgat Ze'ev settlement in East Jerusalem. Political and social activism Neguise founded and served as director-general of South Wing to Zion, an organisation representing Ethiopian immigrants, and is known for his role in leading the struggle to bring the rest of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel. In 2007, Neguise protested the end of Israel's programs in Ethiopia to support aliyah. He said that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avi Dichter
Avi Dichter ( he, אָבִי דִּיכְטֶר, ; born 14 December 1952) is an Israeli politician. A former Minister of Internal Security and Shin Bet director, he resigned from the Knesset and left Kadima in August 2012 in order to become Minister of Home Front Defense, a position he vacated in March 2013. Biography Avraham (Avi) Dichter was born in Ashkelon. His parents were Holocaust survivors. As an adolescent, he joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. After graduating high school, he served in an elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces, Sayeret Matkal, under then Commander Ehud Barak. Upon completing his military service, Dichter joined Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service. In 1986, he earned a BA in Social Science from Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan. He also has an MBA from Tel Aviv University. In 1973, he married Ilana Wallerstein, a teacher and artist who he had met in high school. They have three children. Internal security career Dichter began h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nava Boker
Nava Prehi-Boker ( he, נאוה פרחי-בוקר, born 15 November 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician. Biography Nava Boker was born and raised in Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Yemen. A journalist by profession, Boker worked for both Yedioth Ahronoth and Ma'ariv, as well as Channel 1. She married and had two daughters, then divorced. At age 27, as a reporter, she met Hadera police chief Lior Boker, and married him. Due to difficulties with obtaining a marriage certificate from the Israeli rabbinate, she married Boker in what she described as an "alternative marriage." In 2010 her husband was killed in the Mount Carmel forest fire. She subsequently established a foundation to support fire and rescue workers. Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 25th on the Likud list, and was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayoob Kara
Ayoob Kara ( ar, أيوب قرا, he, איוב קרא; born 12 March 1955) is an Israeli Druze politician. He has served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in four spells between 1999 and 2021, and as Minister of Communications. Biography Kara was born in Daliyat al-Karmel, a Druze town near Haifa, in 1955. He went to an agricultural high school in Kfar Galim. He spent a year playing professional football as a defensive back for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv. He later served in the Israel Defense Forces reserve and attained the rank of major before being discharged for post-traumatic stress disorder. Serving alongside Jews before and after the establishment of Israel has been a source of family pride; his uncle was killed during the Arab revolt in 1939 and his father served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Another uncle was also killed by Arabs then and two of his brothers were killed in action in the 1982 Lebanon War. Following his national service, Kara studied Busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anat Berko
Anat Berko ( he, ענת ברקו, born 14 January 1960) is an Israeli criminologist and politician. An expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, she served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019. Biography Berko was born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents who had immigrated to Israel from Iraq, and was the second of six children. After completing her national service, she remained in the Israel Defense Forces, serving for a total of 25 years and reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. She studied psychology, sociology and criminology at Bar-Ilan University and holds a PhD in criminology, her doctorate thesis was about suicide bombers with emphasis on female and child Palestinian suicide bombers. She became a lecturer at the Lauder School of Government of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and served as a visiting professor at George Washington University. Nowadays she is a research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and lectur ... [...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] |
