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Amichai Chikli

Amichai Chikli is an Israeli lawmaker as part of the Likud Party and current Diaspora affairs and combatting antisemitism minister and, until early January 2024, as social equality minister.

Chikli made waves in Israeli politics in 2021 while part of the Yamina Party after having a public split with the party leader and then-prime minister Naftali Bennett. 

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 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at a Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2023.

Amichai Chikli: Biden admin. doesn't project power, I would choose Republicans

 Amichai Chikli speaks at National Conservatism.

Chikli at Brussels conference: Far left, radical Islamists are 'new antisemites'

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli seen in the Knesset on April 2, 2024

Minister calls Spanish president 'absolute zero' for Iran attack response

 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at a Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2023.

Chikli calls for regime change: 'We will soon bring a new dawn to Iran'

 Diaspora affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli awards a token of gratitude to prominent figures who've advocated for Israel since the beginning of the war, March 31, 2024.

Celebrating solidarity: Diaspora Min. honors prominent figures' support in fighting antisemitism

 Illustration of  Israeli shekels, September 24, 2023

Diaspora Jews contributed over NIS 5 billion to Israel since October 7

 Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 22, 2024

'Protests a gift to Hamas': MKs condemn Ayalon demonstrations

 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at a Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2023.

'Hebrew University evolving into antisemitic institution,' says Diaspora Affairs Minister

 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2023.

Chikli: Activists denying Jews entry to Paris university 'one of worst' events

 Israeli Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli meets Hungarian delegation in Hungary, March 12, 2024.

Israeli minister: Hungary is only European country where Jews can be themselves

 Israel Katz

Israel to combat antisemitism as strategic threat to state

 US President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured) and the Israeli war cabinet, as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023.

'Palestinians are not Hamas': Biden's post on social media draws response from some notable figures

 DIASPORA AFFAIRS Minister Amichai Chikli will have to fight in the government on behalf of Jewish communities all over the world, says the writer.

Chikli to 'Post': Radical Islam rampant in pro-Hamas and anti-Israel Belgium

 How many seats would a new party of reservists receive, if headed by:

'JPost' election poll: New party of IDF reservists shakes up Israeli politics

 MK May Golan visits at MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's makeshift office in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, February 14, 2022.

Israeli ministers bash one another as cabinet meeting descends into chaos

 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at the AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2023.

Likud minister: New budget proposal ‘completely ignores’ Jewish diaspora

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on October 19, 2023.

Jewish orgs to Smotrich: Please don’t close down Diaspora Ministry

 A boy holds a Palestinian flag at a demonstration in support of Palestinians in Gaza, during a temporary truce between Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel, in Frankfurt, Germany, November 25, 2023

Israel warns European countries over massive network of Hamas operatives