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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
Minister of National Security
Assumed office
29 December 2022
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

Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר, [itaˈmaʁ benˈgviʁ]; born 6 May 1976) is an Israeli far-right politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of National Security since 2022.[2] He is the leader of Otzma Yehudit, a Kahanist and anti-Arab party that won six seats in the 2022 Israeli legislative election, and is part of what has been called the most right-wing government in Israel's history.[3][4][5][6]

Ben-Gvir, who is a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has called for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to Israel and has been convicted of hate speech against Arabs.[7][8][6] He is "widely known for his openly racist, anti-Arab views and activities".[9] Ben-Gvir was also convicted of supporting Kach, classified by Israel as a terrorist group, which espoused Kahanism, an anti-Arab and religious Zionist ideology.[10] In the 1990s, he protested against the Oslo Accords and was seen brandishing a Cadillac hood ornament stolen from the car of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was later assassinated.[11][12] Ben-Gvir was known to have a portrait in his living room of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish extremist and Israeli-American mass murderer who massacred 29 Palestinian Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron. He removed the portrait after he entered politics.[7] In 2007, Ben-Gvir was found guilty in an Israeli court of inciting support for a racist terrorist organization.[13]

Ben-Gvir had been long accused of being a provocateur, having led several contentious marches to the Temple Mount as an activist and member of Knesset, through Jerusalem's Old City Muslim Quarter, and set up an office in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood which witnessed several evictions of Palestinians.[14] On 3 January 2023, he visited the Temple Mount where the al-Aqsa Mosque is located, spurring an international wave of criticism that labelled his visit purposely provocative.[14] As a lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of terrorism on trial in Israel.[15] In 2024, he was the subject of a foiled assassination plot by seven Arab citizens of Israel and four Palestinians from the West Bank.[16]

  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. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ a b "Israel's far-right leader Ben-Gvir wins adoring young fans". France24. 27 October 2022. Archived from the original on 4 May 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Itamar Ben-Gvir: Israeli far-right leader set to join new coalition". BBC News. 25 November 2022. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  9. ^ Hermann, Tamar (2022). "The Religions Zionist Sector at Bay". Religions. 13 (2): 178. doi:10.3390/rel13020178.
  10. ^ Toosi, Nahal (20 December 2022). "Biden's strategy for a far-right Israel: Lay it all on Bibi". Politico. Archived from the original on 3 April 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  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. ^ Hendrix, Steve; Rubin, Shira (28 October 2022). "Israel election: A far-right politician moves closer to power". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference conviction was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference TOI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "Ben-Gvir assassination attempt by Palestinians foiled by Israel". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 4 April 2024. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

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