Politicsגילה גמליאל

Gila Gamliel

Gila Gamliel is an Israeli Likud politician who has served as Minister for Social Equality, Minister of Environmental Protection, Minister of Intelligence and Minister of Science and Technology.

born 1974Likud Knesset member since 2003Minister for Social EqualityMinister of IntelligenceFirst woman student union chair

Born: 24 February 1974, Gedera
Occupation: politician, trade unionist
Party: Likud
Education: Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ono Academic College
Rank: Sergeant

Gila Gamliel was born in 1974 in Gedera

Gamliel was born in 1974 in Gedera. Her father Yosef came from a Yemenite Jewish family and her mother Aliza from a Libyan Jewish family. Her brother Yoel Gamliel is mayor of Gedera.

She studied Middle Eastern history and philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, earning a BA and an MA in philosophy. She later earned law degrees at Ono Academic College and Bar-Ilan University. She chaired the university student union and became the first woman to chair the National Union of Israeli Students.

She served in the IDF as a team head of work researchers in the Air Force.

She entered the Knesset for Likud in 2003 and chaired the Committee on the Status of Women. She was Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 2005 and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office from 2009. In 2015 she became Minister for Senior Citizens, a post renamed Minister for Social Equality.

She became Minister of Environmental Protection in 2020 and Minister of Intelligence in 2023. In 2024 she was appointed Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology. She is married to Hovev Damari, has two daughters and lives in Tel Aviv.