Rami Greenberg

Rami Greenberg was born in 1978 in Neve Yarak

Greenberg was born on 18 May 1978 in Neve Yarak and grew up in Petah Tikva in a religious Zionist home. At 14 he was elected head of the Likud youth in the city, and at 16 he became national chair of the Likud youth.

He served in the IDF combat engineers and later joined the Israel Police for about 2 years, working as a detective. He then studied law at the Shaarei Mishpat Academic Center in Hod HaSharon and became a lawyer in criminal law.

From 2003 to 2006 he worked in the security department of the Hod HaSharon municipality. In 2012 he headed a department at the Petah Tikva municipality until the Interior Ministry removed him, and he then advised Mayor Yitzhak Ohion. In the 2013 elections he ran for mayor for Likud, finished third, and entered the city council.

In 2018 he ran with his own list, Renewal, and defeated incumbent mayor Itzik Braverman with 45% of the vote to 36%. He took office on 20 November 2018 and built a wide coalition in the council. In 2022 he was investigated by police on suspicion of several offenses, including bribery, and was arrested in August.