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Itamar Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben-Gvir
אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר
Ben-Gvir smiling, wearing a suit and kippah
Ben-Gvir in 2022
Ministerial roles
2022–2025Minister of National Security
Faction represented in the Knesset
2021–2022Religious Zionist Party
2022–Otzma Yehudit
Personal details
Born (1976-05-06) 6 May 1976 (age 48)
Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Political partyOtzma Yehudit
SpouseAyala Nimrodi
Children6[1]
EducationOno Academic College
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Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר [itaˈmaʁ benˈgviʁ]; born 6 May 1976) is an Israeli far-right politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of National Security from 2022 until 2025.[2] He and his party left the government on 19 January 2025 in protest of the Israeli–Palestinian prisoner exchange.[3] His resignation went into effect after 48 hours.[4] He is the leader of Otzma Yehudit ('Jewish Power'), a Kahanist and anti-Arab party that won six seats in the 2022 Israeli legislative election, and was part of what is widely regarded as the most right-wing government in Israel's history.[5][6][7][8]

Ben-Gvir is a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, whose "political background lies in Kahanism - a violently racist movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands".[9] He has a long history of anti-Arab activism leading to dozens of indictments and at least eight convictions of crimes including incitement to racism and support for, as well as possession of propaganda of, a terrorist organization (the now illegal political party Kach).[10] As a lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of Jewish extremist terrorism on trial in Israel.[11]

Ben-Gvir is known for being a provocateur and has grabbed headlines for a variety of reasons; threatening Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on live television in 1995 shortly before his assassination, having had a portrait in his living room of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish extremist terrorist and mass murderer, calling for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to Israel in 2019,[8] inciting violent clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in 2021, and for making highly controversial visits to the Temple Mount, where the al-Aqsa Mosque is located, in 2023 and 2024.[12]

On 18 January 2025, it was reported that Ben-Gvir intended to resign from his ministerial position in response to the approval and implementation of the three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire deal. He resigned from his position on 19 January 2025.

  1. ^ "Ben Gvir's wife: Yes, I carry a gun, 'deal with it'". The Times of Israel. 14 November 2022. Archived from the original on 2 May 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Far-right extremist gets Israeli security job as coalition deals struck". The Guardian. Reuters. 25 November 2022. Archived from the original on 25 November 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Ben-Gvir, Otzma Yehudit MKs resign from coalition over hostage deal". The Jerusalem Post. 19 January 2025. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  4. ^ Summers, Charlie (21 January 2025). "Ben Gvir said seeking to retain influence over law enforcement, despite resigning". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  5. ^ Keller-Lynn, Carrie (29 December 2022). "Netanyahu returns as PM, wins Knesset support for Israel's most hardline government". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 22 February 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  6. ^ Kelman, Aaron (27 January 2013). "Arab town doesn't love anti-Arab party". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  7. ^ Ahren, Raphael (18 February 2015). "The extremist who could bring Kahanism back to the Knesset". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  8. ^ a b Magid, Jacob (24 February 2019). "Otzma Yehudit candidate: Critics have to go back 30 years in order to attack us". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 24 February 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
  9. ^ Bateman, Tom (25 August 2023). "US condemns Israeli minister Ben Gvir's 'inflammatory' Palestinian comments". BBC News. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  10. ^ Ruth Margalit (20 February 2023). "Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of Chaos". The New Yorker.
  11. ^ Maltz, Judy (4 January 2016). "The Lawyer for Jewish Terrorists Who Started Out by Stealing Rabin's Car Emblem". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference TOI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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