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Israel Katz

Israel Katz is an Israeli lawmaker and member of the Likud Party. He currently serves as the country's foreign minister after serving as energy minister for two years in a rotation deal with Eli Cohen.

Katz has served many other ministerial roles in the past, specifically as transportation minister, agriculture minister, intelligence minister, and finance minister.

He is considered a hardliner in Israeli politics regarding peace and security, supporting settlements and West Bank annexation, but has also advocated for the establishment of an autonomous Palestinian entity.

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Israel Katz at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on November 10, 2024.

DM Katz not present at IDF military HQ during Yemen strike

 Defense Minister Israel Katz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at a situational assessment at the Netzarim corridor in the Gaza Strip.

Katz's ultimatum: Oct. 7 probes must be done by end of January

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen over a wall of hostage posters in an illustrative.

Netanyahu spox. denies reports of trip to Cairo for hostage talks

 Israel Katz attends a replacing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on November 10, 2024.

'Israel will maintain security control over Gaza,' Katz clarifies

 Likud MK Yuli Edelstein attends a plenum session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024

No backroom deals on IDF haredi draft bill, Likud MK Edelstein vows

 Israel Katz attends a replacing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on November 10, 2024.

Israel Katz: New Syrian leaders 'pretending' to be moderate, pose danger to Israel

 Rally to release hostages in Tel Aviv, December 7 2024

Defense Minister Katz to families of hostages: 'If a hostage deal reaches cabinet, it will pass'

 IDF soldiers conduct military operations in Judea and Samaria, September 19, 2024.

IDF to increase protection of communities in West Bank, Katz announces

 IDF soldiers operate on Mount Hermon, on the border between Israel and Syria, December 12, 2024

Israel at war day 433: What happened in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria?

 U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin meets with his Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani (not pictured) on the day of their talks at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Japan December 10, 2024.

Austin to Katz: US to continue thwarting ISIS from reestablishing itself in Syria

By REUTERS
View of the Israeli border fence with Syria, in northern Israel, December 8, 2024

Katz instructs IDF to create security area in Syrian buffer zone

 Druze protest while police guard during a protest against the construction of a new wind farm in the Druze village of Mas'ada, in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023.

Two residents of Israel charged with espionage for spying for Iran

 A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29.

Israel warns Iran against sending help as Syrian army defenses crumble

By Walla! , REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 Brigadier-General Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesperson.

Hagari under fire: MKs, Halevi criticize spokesperson over Feldstein bill comments

 Defense Minister Israel Katz seen over a poster of killed hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin (illustrative)

Katz: Israel 'can truly advance a hostage deal' as pressure on Hamas increases

View of a burnt Palestinian car after it was set on fire by settlers in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the West Bank, December 4, 2024

Katz, security forces squabble over Jewish detentions amid West Bank settler violence

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, December 3, 2024.

Katz: If ceasefire fails, IDF will strike non-Hezbollah Lebanese targets

 Incoming Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, from the ministerial change ceremony.

Katz: If ceasefire fails, IDF will strike non-Hezbollah Lebanese targets