Oded Forer

Oded Forer was born in 1977 in Rehovot

Forer was born in 1977 in Rehovot and grew up there. His father, Shuki Forer, became the city's mayor. His paternal great-grandfather was among the first settlers of Rehovot in the First Aliyah.

He served as a naval officer, and his last post was commander of the Dabur patrol unit. He studied law and government at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and holds a master's degree in political communication.

From 2001 to 2005 he was a political adviser to Education Minister Limor Livnat, and he was secretary of the Israeli Council for Culture and Arts. In 2005 he founded a consulting firm. He joined Yisrael Beiteinu in 2011 and led its youth wing, and in 2013 he became Director-General of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption.

He entered the Knesset on 4 September 2015 and was reelected several times. In June 2020 he became chair of the committee on the status of women and gender equality. In June 2021 he joined the thirty-sixth government as a minister and promoted a reform to end cages for egg-laying hens, which the Knesset approved in June 2022.

He returned to the Knesset in 2022. He is married with three children.