Boaz Bismuth

Boaz Bismuth was born in 1964 in Rehovot

Bismuth was born in Rehovot in 1964 to a family of Tunisian Jews. He attended a Catholic elementary school in Jaffa and a high school of the Church of Scotland.

He earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Bar-Ilan University and served in the Navy. In Paris he earned master's degrees from the Sorbonne in 1988 and 1990, the second in African studies.

He began at Maariv in 1983 as a sports reporter and became its Paris correspondent in 1988. From 1990 to 2004 he was the Paris correspondent of Yedioth Ahronoth and reported from Arab countries and Iran. From 2004 to 2008 he was Israel's ambassador to Mauritania, and in 2008 Al-Qaeda attacked the embassy and named him as its target.

He joined Israel Hayom in 2008 as foreign news editor and became its editor-in-chief in April 2017. From 2020 he was also a television news commentator. He left the editor's post in January 2022.

In 2022 he won the 19th spot in the Likud primaries and entered the Knesset. In 2025 he chaired the National Security Committee and then the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He is married to Ruth, has 4 children and lives in Tel Aviv.