Age 57; Jerusalem-born lawyer and longtime Netanyahu ally; architect of the 2023 judicial reform package aimed at rebalancing Israel's branches of government.
Positions and record
- Entered the Knesset in 2009 after serving as Vice Chairman of the Israel Bar Association (2003-05)
- Served as Tourism Minister (2015-19) and Knesset Speaker (2020-21) before returning to cabinet
- Architect of Israel's 2023 judicial reform package, a long-term project rooted in more than two decades of his writings warning against judicial overreach
- Long-time advocate of restoring democratic balance by reforming Supreme Court powers and the judicial selection process
- Currently the senior minister managing five ministerial portfolios, holding the line for the coalition while Shas and UTJ ministers remain outside the government over the yeshiva-student conscription dispute
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Yariv Levin, The State of Israel. https://thestateofisrael.com/mk/yariv-levin