Gideon sa ar biography video

Sa'ar was first elected to the Knesset as a member of Likud in , serving until During that period, he served as Education Minister — and Minister of the Interior — After a political hiatus, he returned to the Knesset in , and unsuccessfully challenged Benjamin Netanyahu for the leadership of Likud. As a member of the National Unity alliance, he returned to the opposition following the election.

Following the breakout of the Israel—Hamas war, National Unity joined the governing coalition and Sa'ar was named minister without portfolio and an observer in the war cabinet. In March , Sa'ar withdrew New Hope from National Unity and from the coalition, and resigned as minister, before returning to the government in September His mother Bruriah was born in Israel to a seventh-generation Bukharian Jewish family, whose ancestors arrived during the Ottoman Empire.

He has two siblings, a brother and a sister. His father was a doctor, while his mother was a teacher. Sa'ar grew up primarily in Tel Aviv, but as a child, he lived for a number of years in Mitzpe Ramon, where his father worked as a pediatrician, and in kibbutz Sde Boker, where he was the kibbutz doctor. His father was frequently in contact with Ben-Gurion as the kibbutz doctor, and the young Gideon Sa'ar met Ben-Gurion numerous times when accompanying his father on visits to his home, during which Ben-Gurion gave him geography quizzes.

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Sa'ar has another two children, Alona and Daniela, from his first wife Shelly, as well as one grandchild. Sa'ar worked as an aide to the Attorney General between and , and then as an aide to the State Attorney until Sa'ar was appointed cabinet Secretary in and again from —2 after Likud's Ariel Sharon won a special election for Prime Minister. In the elections he won a seat in the Knesset on Likud's list, and was appointed Likud Parliamentary Group Chairman as well as Chairman of the Coalition.