Dudi Amsalem

Dudi Amsalem was born in 1960 in Jerusalem

David "Dudi" Amsalem was born in Jerusalem in 1960. His parents, Avraham and Sultana, came to Israel from Morocco. He grew up in Jerusalem and Kiryat Malakhi and studied at the Or Etzion yeshiva high school.

In the IDF he served as a tank commander in the Armored Corps. He later earned a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration from Bar-Ilan University.

He worked in the budget division of the National Insurance Institute and the economic department of the Finance Ministry. He then worked at the Jerusalem municipality, where he headed the department for improving the city's appearance. In 2003 police arrested him on suspicion of forging Likud membership forms, but prosecutors closed the case for lack of evidence.

Amsalem chaired the Likud Jerusalem branch and entered the Knesset in 2015. He chaired the Interior and Environment Committee and became coalition whip in 2017. He was Minister of Communications from 2019 and Minister for Cyber and National Digital Matters from 2020.

In 2023 he joined the government as Minister for Regional Cooperation, a minister in the Justice Ministry and Government-Knesset liaison. He is a widower with 2 daughters. His wife Rosy died of lung cancer in 2009.