Yariv Levin

Yariv Levin was born in 1969 in Jerusalem

Levin was born in Jerusalem in 1969. His father, Aryeh Levin, was a Hebrew University professor and an Israel Prize laureate in linguistics. Menachem Begin was the sandek at his circumcision, and he finished high school at Boyar School in Jerusalem.

In the IDF he served in Unit 8200 as an Arabic translator and later commanded an Arabic translation course. In 1995 he published a dictionary of economic terms in Arabic, English and Hebrew. He earned a law degree from the Hebrew University and worked in civil and commercial law.

He helped found the Mahatz faction in the Israel Bar Association, became its vice chairman, and was acting chairman from 2003 to 2005. In Likud he led the founding of the Modi'in branch in 1997. In 2006 Benjamin Netanyahu named him head of the party's government oversight team.

Levin entered the Knesset in 2009 and chaired the House Committee, the coalition and the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. From 2015 to 2020 he was Minister of Tourism, and he was Speaker of the Knesset from 2020 to 2021. After the 2022 election he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, and his judicial overhaul plan drew wide protests.