Robert Ilatov

Robert Ilatov was born in 1971 in Andijan

Ilatov was born on 12 November 1971 in Andijan, in Soviet Uzbekistan. He immigrated to Israel in 1985. He served in the Israel Defense Forces and was discharged as a sergeant.

He studied practical industrial engineering and management at Tel Aviv University and local governance at Bar-Ilan University. He also holds a BA in business administration from the Peres Academic Center.

He settled in Netanya, where he served as deputy mayor. From 2000 to 2006 he worked in public relations for Laniado Hospital. In 2006 he entered the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and later chaired the party's Knesset faction and the Economics Committee.

He was reelected in 2009, 2013 and 2015. In the 20th Knesset he sat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Judicial Selection Committee. He promoted laws including the Angels Law, Yom HaAliyah and emergency announcements in several languages.

In 2016 he founded the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast. He did not run in the April 2019 elections and in July 2019 became an adviser on Russian-speaking voters for the Likud campaign. He lives in Netanya, is married and has 3 children.