Gideon Sa'ar

Gideon Sa'ar was born in 1966 in Tel Aviv

Gideon Moshe Serchensky, later Sa'ar, was born in Tel Aviv on 9 December 1966. His mother Bruriah was a teacher from a Bukharian Jewish family, and his father Shmuel was a pediatrician who came to Israel from Argentina. As a child he lived in Mitzpe Ramon and at kibbutz Sde Boker, where his father was the doctor of David Ben-Gurion.

He attended Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv. After the army he earned degrees in political science and law at Tel Aviv University. During his studies he worked as a journalist for the weekly Haolam Hazeh.

He joined the IDF in 1984 and served in the Golani Brigade. He worked as an aide to the Attorney General and the State Attorney, and was Cabinet Secretary in 1999 and from 2001 to 2002.

He entered the Knesset for Likud in 2003 and was Minister of Education from 2009 and Minister of the Interior from 2013 to 2014. He left politics in 2014 and returned in 2019, losing a Likud leadership race to Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 2020 he founded New Hope and became Minister of Justice in 2021. He joined the government after the Gaza war began and became Foreign Minister in November 2024. In 2025 New Hope merged back into Likud, and he resigned from the Knesset in July 2025.