Julia Malinovsky

Julia Malinovsky was born in 1975 in Luhansk

Malinovsky was born in 1975 in Voroshilovgrad in Soviet Ukraine, today Luhansk. Her mother Sophia is Jewish, and her father Vladimir was of Russian, Greek and Armenian descent.

She earned a law degree at the Luhansk branch of the East Ukrainian National University. She then worked as a manpower officer in the police. In 1998 she moved to Israel, after her younger sister, and the rest of the family came later.

She joined the Holon City Council for Yisrael Beiteinu. As a council member she petitioned the Supreme Court against the municipal security tax, and in 2010 the court ruled in her favor. She ran for the Knesset in 2009 and 2013 but was not elected.

She entered the Knesset in June 2016 in place of Avigdor Lieberman and left in November 2018 when he returned. She was elected again in 2019 and served in later Knessets. In the 24th Knesset she chaired the committee on national infrastructure projects and Jewish religious services.

In 2024 she authored a law ending UNRWA activity in Israel, passed with 92 votes. With Simcha Rothman she co-authored a law to prosecute Nukhba members over the October 7 attacks, passed in 2026. She lives in Holon and is married with 2 children.