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

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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

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'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

 Head of the National Union party MK Betzalel Smotrich and attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir attend Otzma Yehudit party's election campaign event in Bat Yam on April 06, 2019.

Government will fall without Rafah operation, Ben-Gvir threatens

 Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu at the War Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem last October

Israel’s cabinet approves increased Gaza aid, after Biden threats

Suspects for the terror plot against Ben Gvir

Ben-Gvir assassination attempt by Palestinians foiled by Israel

 Protestors demonstrating for the return of the hostages clash with police around Jerusalem

Shin Bet chief: Violence at protests, in online discourse could take us down a dangerous path

 YEHUDIT RAVITZ performs at the jubilee ceremony of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, in 2000, in Tel Aviv.

Grapevine March 31, 2024: An emotional visit

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Ben-Gvir slams Gantz and Eisenkot, fights journalist over basketball violence

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Protest leader: Netanyahu is causing Israel to crumble

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  Recruiting for the Palestinian struggle: "The Jews want to take over Al-Aqsa."

Ramadan powder keg: The Temple Mount in the eye of the storm

By Prof. Yitzhak Reiter