Itamar Eitam

Itamar Eitam was born in 1981 in Nov, Golan Heights

Itamar Eitam was born in 1981 and grew up in Nov, a moshav in the Golan Heights. He is the second son of Effi Eitam, a retired brigadier general, former minister and former leader of the National Religious Party, and Ilit, a parenting instructor. He has 7 siblings.

He studied at the Hispin Yeshiva High School and the Bnei David pre-military academy. He later earned a bachelor's degree in political science and government from the University of Haifa and master's degrees in military and security studies and Talmud from Bar-Ilan University. He also completed the social leadership program of the Mandel Leadership Institute.

He joined the IDF in 2001 and served in the Egoz Unit and the Golani Brigade, fighting in the Second Lebanon War. In the reserves he commanded battalions, including in the Gaza war, and was wounded in 2024. He returned to command after rehabilitation.

He worked as an educator at the Hodayot youth village and supervised community social education in the Ministry of Education. He co-founded the Called to the Flag movement, which opposed refusal of military service as protest during the judicial reform, and the Reservists, Generation of Victory movement. In September 2026 Bezalel Smotrich announced he would join the Religious Zionist list, and he was elected to the Knesset.

He is married to Naama, a biology coordinator at a yeshiva high school. They have 6 children and live in Hoshaya.