Itamar Ben-Gvir

On 25 February 2019, Ben-Gvir said that Arab citizens of Israel who were not loyal to Israel "must be expelled". Ben-Gvir has a photo of Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Muslims at the Cave of the Patriarchs in 1994, hanging in his home.

Itamar Ben-Gvir was the parliamentary assistant in the 18th Knesset for Michael Ben-Ari On 23 July 2017, he was part of the leadership of a protest that included dozens of people outside of the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. The protest was in conjuncture of both Lehava and Otzma Yehudit.

Ben-Gvir continued to be associated with the Kahanist movement. In the 1990s, he was active in protests against the Oslo Accords. In 1995, a few weeks before the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Ben-Gvir came to public attention for the first time when he appeared on television brandishing a Cadillac emblem that had been stolen from Rabin's car and declared: "We got to his car, and we'll get to him too." However, when forming the Otzma Yehudit party, he claimed that it would not be a Kach Kahane Chai or splinter group. He carried out a series of far-right activities that have resulted in dozens of indictments. In a November 2015 interview, he claimed to have been indicted 53 times. In most cases, the charges were thrown out of court.

Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew: איתמר בן-גביר ; born 6 May 1976) is an Israeli lawyer, and a leader in the Israeli far-right Otzma Yehudit party. He is known for defending Jewish radicals on trial in Israel. He has called for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to Israel. Ben-Gvir is currently running for a seat in the Knesset in the upcoming elections in the first slot of the Otzma Yehudit electoral list.

Itamar Ben-Gvir was born on 6 May 1976, and grew up in the affluent Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Zion. His father was a Kurdish-Jewish immigrant from Iraq who worked at a gasoline company and dabbled in writing, while his mother was a homemaker. His family was secular, but as a teenager, he adopted religious and radical right-wing views during the First Intifada. He first joined a right-wing youth movement affiliated with Moledet, a party which advocated transferring Arabs out of Israel, and then joined the youth movement of the even more radical Kach and Kahane Chai party, which was eventually outlawed by the Israeli government. He became youth coordinator of Kach, and claimed that he was detained at age 14. When he came of age for conscription into the Israel Defense Forces at 18, he was exempted from service by the IDF due to his extreme-right political background.