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9 firsts you should know about My teen self would be proud of the adult work

Israel’s new government I do to strengthen Israel

The coalition headed by Naftali Bennett includes a spectrum of lawmakers –
Orthodox, Arab, female, gay and even Israel’s first deaf Knesset member.
By Abigail Klein Leichman, israel21c.org, June 14, 2021
or the first time in 12 years, Is- Arab party – the Islamist Ra’am man Lande, and North Carolina The Hebrew word yachad (together) displayed
in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, by the Black Flag
rael’s Likud Party and its head, Party – while other parties repre- native Prof. Alon Tal. Counting movement, in celebration of the new government
FBenjamin Netanyahu, will move senting Israel’s 21% Arab minority Tal, the Knesset has had only (photo by Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
from the prime minister’s seat to the chose to remain in the opposition. eight American-born members in same ministry – then called the
opposition in the Knesset, Israel’s par- 3. Incoming Health Minister Nitzan its 73-year history. (Bennett, like Police Ministry – that was led by
liament. Horowitz was the first openly gay Netanyahu, a fluent English speak- his late father, Haim Bar-Lev, from
The new government, sworn in Knesset member to head a major er, was born in Haifa to American 1984 to 1990.
Sunday night, June 13, brings into party (Meretz). immigrants.) Abigail Klein Leichman is a writer and
power a broad coalition of eight politi- 4. The 36 Knesset includes two 8. Three former broadcast journal- associate editor at ISRAEL21c. Prior
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cal parties spanning left to right. longtime disabilities activists: ists are in the top echelon: Yair to moving to Israel in 2007, she was
Heading Israel’s 36 government Shirley Pinto, Israel’s first deaf Lapid, Nitzan Horowitz and Mer- a specialty writer and copy editor at
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is Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett, Knesset member; and Karine El- av Michaeli. Lapid’s late father, a major daily newspaper in New Jer-
the 13 Israeli prime minister. harrar, a veteran MK who has Tommy, was also a TV journalist- sey and has freelanced for a variety
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Bennett was sworn in along with muscular dystrophy, as Minister of turned-politician. of newspapers and periodicals since
Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid, who Energy. 9. Incoming Minister of Public Secu- 1984.
will serve as alternate prime minister 5. There are nine female cabinet rity Omer Bar-Lev is heading the
and foreign minister until becoming ministers (out of a total of 27), the
the country’s 14 prime minister in highest number in Israel’s history:
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August 2023 for the final two years Yifat Shasha-Biton (Education),
of the term – if all goes according to Ayelet Shaked (Interior), Merav
plan. Michaeli (Transportation), Tamar
Here are nine notable firsts in this Zandberg (Environmental Protec-
36 Knesset, formed with the intention tion), Orna Barbivay (Economy),
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of unseating Netanyahu and bringing Karine Elharrar (Energy), Pnina
change to Israel. Tamano-Shata (Aliyah and Inte-
1. Bennett, 49, is the first prime min- gration) and Orit Farkash Hacohen
ister from the high-tech world, (Science and Technology).
having headed and sold two suc- 6. There are two Arab cabinet minis-
cessful software companies, Cyota ters: Esawi Frej (Regional Cooper-
and Soluto. He also is the first to ation) and Hamed Amar (Finance).
wear a kippah, a traditional Jewish 7. Two new Knesset members hail
skullcap. from English-speaking countries: The newly sworn-in Israeli government poses for a group photo at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem,
2. The ruling coalition includes an Cape Town-raised Ruth Wasser- June 14, 2021 (photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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