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Itamar Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben-Gvir is an Israeli lawyer and lawmaker who is the head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party. He currently serves as the country's national security minister. 

Though born in Mevaseret Zion near Jerusalem, Ben-Gvir now resides as a settler in Hebron in the West Bank and has made several controversial trips to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He has faced numerous charges of hate speech and was convicted of supporting the terrorist group Kach, the party founded by extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane. He remains an incredibly divisive figure in Israeli politics to this day.

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 From left to right: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Minister-without-portfolio Benny Gantz, and opposition leader Yair Lapid

Ministers threaten coalition over choice between Rafah op. and hostage deal

 Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is escorted by police officers as protesters attend a rally calling for the immediate release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 attack.

Free speech? Two protesters arrested for calling Ben-Gvir a criminal - legal aid org

 IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi in Gaza's Khan Yunis April 3, 2024

Ben-Gvir reportedly slammed for questioning why surrendering Hamas men were arrested, not killed

Terrorist stabbing attack in Ramle leaves 18-year-old woman in serious condition

Terrorist stabbing attack leaves 18-year-old woman in serious condition

 Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich

Israeli Right slam gov't decision to allow foreign observer visits for imprisoned Nukhba terrorists

By Tal Shilo , YAKI ADAMKER , Shlomi Heler
 Hamas terrorists who were caught during the October 7 massacre and during the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, seen at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024

Extended cabinet approves foreign observers' visits to Nukhba terrorists in prison

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) meets with Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2024.

Gantz or Bennett might be the next Prime Minister, according to N13 new poll

People enter the State Department Building in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2017.

Israeli gov't committed human rights abuses in 2023, State Department says

 Benjamin Netanyahu

Iranian attack shows Israel's right-wing gov't exudes weakness

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks at a convention in Jerusalem on January 28, calling for Israel to rebuild settlements in the Gaza Strip.

Ben-Gvir hints strike in Iran as 'weak, disappointing'

 MEMBERS OF THE opposition react during a past speech by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset.

Ben-Gvir, Arbel clash on WhatsApp over criticism of Attorney General

 Itamar Ben Gvir

Ben-Gvir forms new West Bank police force to monitor left-wing activists

 Itamar Ben Gvir

Ben-Gvir threatens coalition after spat with haredi parties

 Head of the Otzma Yehudit party and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2024.

Ben-Gvir: Time to attack; Michaeli: Stop Gaza war, bring back hostages

 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 27, 2024.

If there is a Rafah attack date, maybe PM should tell IDF

 Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir seen outside the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem on March 13, 2024.

Ben-Gvir's police chief announcement is a veiled political threat

 UNRWA

'We won't address their complaints': Ben-Gvir rejects UNRWA's calls for answers

 Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu with Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022.

Suspects arrested for inciting violence against Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir