Nitzan Horowitz

Nitzan Horowitz was born in 1965 in Rishon LeZion

Horowitz was born in 1965. He studied law at Tel Aviv University and became a lawyer in 1992.

He joined the IDF in 1983 and worked at Army Radio as a military reporter, spending long periods in Lebanon. He later became its foreign news editor.

He was foreign news editor at Hadashot from 1987 and at Haaretz from 1989. He reported for Haaretz from Paris from 1993 to 1998 and from Washington from 1998 to 2001. In 2002 he set up the international desk of Channel 10 news and made documentaries.

He entered the Knesset for Meretz in 2009 and ran for mayor of Tel Aviv in 2013. He won the Meretz leadership in 2019 and became Minister of Health in Naftali Bennett's government in 2021. In February 2022 he banned conversion therapy through a government circular.

In 2022 he stepped down as party leader and returned to media work. He has written books on the October 7 war. He lives in Tel Aviv with his partner, director Ido Ricklin.