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Yoaz Hendel

Yoaz Hendel

Yoaz Hendel, born in 1975 in Petah Tikva, is an Israeli historian, former naval commando and former Minister of Communications.

Born
1975 (51 years), Petah Tikva
Party
The Reservists
Education
Tel Aviv University
Political position

Centre-right · Where sources place this person
Wikipedia: self-described right-wing, liberal nationalist; positioned centre-right
Ideology: liberal nationalism, Zionism

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He founded The Reservists party in September 2025. He is named among the possible contenders for Prime Minister of Israel in the election due on 27 October 2026, in which his party is allied with the economist Yaron Zelekha.

Career

Hendel holds a doctorate in history from Tel Aviv University and lectured at Bar-Ilan University. He served in the naval commando unit Shayetet 13 and in 2015 established the Omer Unit for reserve veterans. He sat in the Knesset from 2019 to 2022 for Blue and White, Derekh Eretz and New Hope, and was Minister of Communications in 2020 and again from 2021 to 2022, leading fiber-optic expansion and postal liberalisation. He left politics in 2022 and returned in 2025.

Offices held
  1. Minister of Communications 2021–2022
  2. Knesset member 2019–2021

Source: Wikidata

Positions

Wikipedia says he describes himself as right-wing and a liberal nationalist, and places him in the centre-right. The Reservists' platform, as the article reports it, calls for universal military conscription including ultra-Orthodox men, judicial reform by broad consensus, and an investigation into the attacks of 7 October 2023.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia

Photo: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, CC BY 2.0, 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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