Benjamin Gantz is an Israeli soldier and politician. He served as the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2011 to 2015. In December 2018, he established a new political party named Israel Resilience. Gantz agreed to join a unity government with Prime Minister Netanyahu which would see Gantz serve as prime minister in a rotation deal in 18 months. The coalition collapsed with a new election scheduled for 2021.
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Benjamin Gantz is an Israeli soldier and politician. He served as the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2011 to 2015 and the 17th Speaker of the Knesset from 26 March 2020 to 17 May 2020. In December 2018, he established a new political party named Israel Resilience. Gantz agreed to join a unity government with Prime Minister Netanyahu which would see Gantz serve as prime minister in a rotation deal in 18 months. The coalition collapsed with a new election scheduled for 2021. In February 2019, an Israeli-American woman accused Gantz of exposing himself to her 40 years earlier, causing her traumatic disorders. Gantz denied all allegations, claiming that such an incident never took place, and that the allegations were politically motivated. He has since sued the woman for defamation. He is married to Revital, with whom he has four children. He lives in Rosh HaAyin and has a bachelor’s degree in history from Tel Aviv University, a master’s degree from the University of Haifa, and an additional master’sdegree in National Resources Management from the National Defense University in the United States.
In the course of his military career, Gantz served as Commander in the Israeli Air Force; Commander of the 35th Paratroopers Brigade; and as Israel’s military attaché in the U.S. Following the previous appointment of Alufav Ehud Baruf, Ehud Galant was the previous Israeli Minister of Defense. He was scheduled to become prime minister on 17 November 2021;however, the coalition collapsed and a new elections were scheduled for the same time in 2021. He fought in the First Lebanon War and the Second Intifada. In 1991, he commanded the commando unit that was on the ground in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for 36 hours, securing the Operation Solomon airlift to Israel. In 2001, he became the Commander of Israel’s Northern Command. In 2009, he was appointed as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff.
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