Avi Roee

Avi Roee was born in 1954 in Tunis

Avi Roee was born in Tunis in 1954. His family immigrated to Israel in 1956 and lived in Acre. He studied at the Bnei Akiva yeshiva Pirchei Aharon in Kiryat Shmuel, Haifa.

He served in the paratroopers' 890th Battalion and later commanded the Binyamin region in the reserves. After the army he studied at the Technion and became an aeronautical engineer. He worked for years at Israel Aerospace Industries on aircraft development, including the Lavi project.

In 1984 he was among the founders of the settlement Kochav Yaakov. From 1994 he worked for the Amana settlement movement as coordinator for the Binyamin settlements. In 2002 he became deputy head of the Mateh Binyamin council for settlement affairs.

He was elected head of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council in 2007 and chaired the Yesha Council from 2013 to 2017. In 2016 he reached a conditional arrangement with the prosecution over a 2008 permit and paid a fine, without being tried. State Comptroller reports in 2017 and 2018 found faults in the council's conduct under him.

In 2019 he was appointed adviser to the defense minister on settlement. In 2022 Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked appointed him head of the new Sha'ar HaShomron local council. He has 6 children from his first marriage and married Hadassah in 2005.