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Amir Ohana

Amir Ohana

Amir Ohana, born in 1976 in Beersheba, is an Israeli lawyer, former Shin Bet official and Likud politician.

Born
1976 (50 years), Beersheba
Party
Likud
Office
Speaker of the Knesset 2022–
Knesset member 2021–
Education
College of Management Academic Studies
Political position

Right · Where sources place the party (Likud)
Wikipedia: Likud is right-wing
Ideology: conservatism, right-wing politics

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He has been Speaker of the Knesset since December 2022 and was Minister of Justice in 2019 to 2020 and Minister of Public Security in 2020 to 2021. He is named among the possible contenders for Prime Minister of Israel in the 2026 election.

Career

Ohana has belonged to Likud since 2015. He was Minister of Justice from 2019 to 2020 and Minister of Public Security from 2020 to 2021, the first openly gay man from Likud in the Knesset and the first openly LGBT person in an Israeli government. He became Knesset Speaker on 29 December 2022. Wikipedia reports that in December 2025 he voted for a civil marriage bill despite coalition backlash.

Offices held
  1. Speaker of the Knesset 2022–
  2. Knesset member 2015–2020, 2021–
  3. Justice Minister of Israel 2019–2020

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Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia

Photo: Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

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Prime Minister of Israel after the election?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Gadi EizenkotCentre6647%
Benjamin NetanyahuRight7636%
Naftali BennettRight5410%
Avigdor LiebermanRight682%
Ofer Winter551%
Itamar Ben GvirFar right501%
Yossi Cohen65<1%
Yair LapidCentre62<1%
Yair GolanCentre-left64<1%
Yoaz HendelCentre-right51<1%
Ayelet ShakedRight50<1%
Amir OhanaRight50<1%

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