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Gilad Erdan

Gilad Erdan

Gilad Erdan, born in 1970, is an Israeli politician and former ambassador to the United Nations (2020–2024), previously a long-serving Likud minister.

Born
1970 (56 years), Ashkelon
Party
Unity
Office
Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations 2020–
Education
Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University
Political position

Right · Where sources place this person
Wikipedia: right-wing
Ideology: right-wing politics, conservatism

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He founded the Unity party with Yuli Edelstein in August 2026. He did not stand in the 2026 Israeli election as a party leader: Wikipedia reports that he withdrew in September 2026 over poor polling and failed alliance talks.

Career

Erdan sat in the Knesset for Likud from 2003 to 2020. He was Minister of Environmental Protection from 2009 to 2013, Minister of Communications from 2013 to 2014, Minister of Interior from 2014 to 2015 and Minister of Public Security from 2015 to 2020, also holding the strategic affairs portfolio. He was Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2020 to 2024. In August 2026 he founded Unity with Yuli Edelstein.

Offices held
  1. Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations 2020–
  2. Ambassador of Israel to the United States 2021–2021
  3. Minister of National Security of Israel 2015–2020
  4. Strategic Affairs Minister of Israel 2015–2020
  5. Knesset member 2003–2020
  6. Minister of the Interior of Israel 2014–2015
  7. Minister of Communications 2013–2014
  8. Home Front Defense Minister 2013–2014

Source: Wikidata

Positions

Wikipedia describes him as right-wing, and as an opponent of the Oslo Accords early in his career. The Unity platform advocated military or national service for all Israelis.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia

Photo: Yonidebest, 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%
Yoaz HendelCentre-right51<1%
Yair GolanCentre-left64<1%
Ayelet ShakedRight50<1%
Gilad ErdanRight56<1%

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