Ofir Sofer

Ofir Sofer (Hebrew: אוֹפִיר סוֹפֵר, born 1 August 1975) is an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for the Religious Zionist Party, using Atid Ehad as a shelf party.

Ofir Sofer
Faction represented in the Knesset
2019Union of Right-Wing Parties
2019Yamina
2019–2020Jewish Home–Tkuma
2020–2021Yamina
2021Likud
2021–Religious Zionist Party
Personal details
Born (1975-08-01) 1 August 1975
Alma, Israel

Sofer is a former IDF major and is considered a disabled veteran. Afterwards he worked at the Ministry for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee.[1]

Political career

In 2014, he became secretary general of the Orthodox-nationalist Tkuma party.[2] When the party joined the Union of Right-Wing Parties alliance for the April 2019 Knesset elections, Sofer was placed fourth on the alliances' list, and entered the Knesset when it won five seats.[3] During the 2021 election he ran in Likud list for the Knesset, as a member of Atid Ehad party, using it as a shelf party. On 14 June he split from Likud and merged with the Religious Zionist Party, after the swearing-in of the 36th government.[4][5] The split was not officially approved until 27 June.[6]

Personal life

Sofer is married, has 7 children,[7] and lives in Tefahot, a religious moshav in Northern Israel.

He is of Tunisian-Jewish descent.

References
  1. Ofir Sofer on the Knesset website
  2. "'All cities in the Galilee will become mixed'". Israel National News. 15 July 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  3. "Here's the Full List of Israeli Lawmakers – and Only a Quarter Are Women". Haaretz. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  4. "Official: Ofir Sofer returns to the Religious Zionist Party". Srugim (in Hebrew). 14 June 2021.
  5. "Ophir Sofer returns, Yamina waiting for Shai Maimon". Arutz 7 (in Hebrew). 14 June 2021.
  6. @IsraelexLive (27 June 2021). "Ofir Sofer's request has been approved. He is now a Religious Zionist MK rather than a Likud MK. This reduces the size of the Likud's Knesset faction to 29, and increases the RZP's to 7" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 June 2021 – via Twitter.
  7. Harkov, Lahav (22 April 2019). "Meet the New MK: Ofir Sofer, URP". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.