Alon Davidi (born 18 October 1973) is an Israeli politician. He has been mayor of

Sderot Sderot ( he, שְׂדֵרוֹת, , lit. ''Boulevards'', ar, سديروت) is a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District of Israel. In it had a population of . Sderot is located less than a mile from Gaza (the c ...

since 2013.

Political career

Ahead of the 2021 Israeli legislative election, he announced on 31 January 2021 that he would leave

Likud Likud ( he, הַלִּיכּוּד, HaLikud, The Consolidation), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major centre-right to right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon ...

and join

Yamina Yamina or Yemina (; ) is an Israeli political alliance of right-wing parties that originally included the New Right and the Union of Right-Wing Parties (a union of The Jewish Home and Tkuma). The current incarnation of the alliance include ...

. He was placed in the seventh slot of the Yamina list ahead of the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

. After Davidi resigned from the list, the seat was given to

Idit Silman Idit Silman (, born 27 October 1980) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yamina from 2021 to 2022, and previously for the Union of Right-Wing Parties in 2019. She was the parliamentary whip of the coalition, befor ...

, who was placed eighth on the party's list.

References

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