Naor Narkis

Naor Narkis was born in 1989 in Ramat Gan

Naor Menachem Narkis was born in Ramat Gan in 1989 and grew up there. His mother was a secretary and his father a taxi driver. His middle name honors his uncle, Corporal Menachem Narkis Nargos, who died when the submarine INS Dakar sank.

He attended Blich High School in Ramat Gan. In 2007 he joined the Havatzalot Program of the IDF and completed it with honors. Through the program he earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Middle East History at the University of Haifa.

He served 7 years in the IDF, including as an officer in the Research Department of Military Intelligence. He left in 2014 as a captain after dealing with depression. That year he lived in Berlin, working as an app developer and language teacher, and returned to Israel at the end of the year.

In 2014 he founded the Facebook community Olim L'Berlin, which criticized the cost of living in Israel and became known as the Milky Protest. From 2015 he worked under the brand Tochnist, which manages digital communities, and he lectured on the subject at Reichman University.

In 2022 he founded the Israel Nehora movement and the Huzrim BeTvuna course, which aim to secularize Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the spirit of the Haskalah. He also campaigned against what he described as discrimination against secular people. In 2026 he ran in the Democrats primary and was placed 22nd on the party list.