Idan Roll ( he, עִידָן רוֹל, born 27 April 1984) is an Israeli politician, model and lawyer. He is currently

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and was a member of the

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for Yesh Atid.

Biography

Roll was born in Jerusalem and moved to Mevaseret Zion as a child, attending Harel High School. He started his national service in the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, serving in the Israeli Intelligence Corps in a technology unit in central Israel, before completing an officer course and becoming cadet commander. After completing his national service, he began serving in the reserves in the Military Intelligence Directorate. In 2007 he started studying at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

law school. Whilst at university, he joined StandWithUs, and worked as a model. After graduating, he joined Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal's commercial department. He also completed a master's degree in public law, and later worked in law firms specialising in high-tech, mergers and acquisitions.

Political career

Having previously been a member of the

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faction of

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 Shar ...

, Roll joined the Yesh Atid party, and became head of its LGBTQ group.Israel 2019 elections: Meet the LGBTQ candidates
A Wider Bridge, 19 March 2019 He was part of the Yesh Atid list for Tel Aviv-Yafo city council in the 2018 municipal elections. After the party joined the Blue and White alliance for the

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, he was given the thirty-fourth slot on the joint list, and was subsequently elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 35 seats. Although he retained thirty-fourth place on the Blue and White list for the early elections in September 2019, the alliance was reduced to 33 seats, resulting in Roll losing his seat. He was placed thirty-fourth on the Blue and White list for the March 2020 elections. Although the party won 33 seats, Roll entered the Knesset after Yael German (who was thirteenth on the list) retired. He was re-elected in the 2021 elections, in which Yesh Atid ran alone. He was subsequently appointed

in the new government, after which he gave up his Knesset seat under the

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. He was re-elected in the

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Personal life

On 5 March 2021 Roll married

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singer

Harel Skaat Harel Skaat ( he, הראל סקעת, born 8 August 1981) sometimes known by the mononym Harel is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Milim" ("מילים", "Words"). Skaat h ...

in Provo,

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. They have a son, Ari, who was born via

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in August 2018 in

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, Oklahoma, United States.

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