Ze'ev Elkin
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Background
Ze’ev Elkin is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud. [1]
Education
He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining a BA in history and mathematics in 1994 and an MA in history in the same year.[1]
Career
Elkin was elected to the 17th Knesset in 2006 as a member of Kadima before switching to Likud in 2009. He was subsequently re-elected again in 2013.[1]
He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between March 2013 and June 2014, and then became Chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.[1]
In 2015, after the elections, he was appointed Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Strategic Affairs in the new government. The latter he held for 11 days when Netanyahu appointed Gilad Erdan Minister of Public Security, Strategic Affairs, and Public Diplomacy.[1]
He was given the position of Minister of Jerusalem Affairs portfolio as compensation.[1]
On May 30, 2016, Elkin lost the portfolio of Minister of Immigrant Absorption to Sofa Landver of Yisrael Beiteinu. However, on August 1, 2016, he was appointed Minister of Environmental Protection, succeeding Avi Gabbay.[1]
He was re-elected to the Knesset in April 2019, September 2019, and March 2020. In May 2020 he was appointed to the newly created posts of Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Water Resources in the new government.[1]
Elkin resigned from the government as Minister of Water Resources and Higher Education and left Likud in 2021 to join Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party.[1]
