Miri Regev

Miri Regev was born in 1965 in Kiryat Gat

Miriam Siboni, later Miri Regev, was born in Kiryat Gat in 1965. Her father Felix came from Morocco and her mother Mercedes came from Spain. She attended Rogozin High School in Kiryat Gat.

She holds a bachelor's degree in informal education from Beit Berl College and an MBA from Ono Academic College. She is married to Dror Regev, an engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries, and has 3 children.

She enlisted in 1983 and later joined the IDF Spokesperson's Unit. In 2005 she became IDF Spokesperson with the rank of brigadier general, serving during the Gaza disengagement and the Second Lebanon War.

She joined Likud in November 2008 and entered the Knesset in 2009. In 2015 she became Minister of Culture and Sport, where her funding policies toward artists drew criticism. She served as Minister of Transport from 2020 to 2021 and was appointed again in 2022.

In 2024 a television report accused her of politicizing the Transport Ministry, and police raided the ministry's offices as part of a corruption investigation.