Yuli Edelstein
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Yuli-Yoel Edelstein is an Israeli politician, co-founder of the Yisrael BaAliyah party, and a senior figure in Likud.
Official portrait, 2022
Edelstein's prison release record from the Moscow MVD, 1987
Edelstein as Information Minister, briefing reporters at site of Hamas rocket attack, 2012
Gilad Erdan
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Gilad Erdan is an Israeli politician and diplomat who was a prominent figure in the Likud party, serving as a long-time member of the Knesset from 2003 to 2020 and holding numerous senior ministerial
Yuli Edelstein
…2022–2025). Breaking with Likud, he announced in June 2026 that he was leaving the party and launched a new right-wing political party, Unity, with Gilad Erdan in August 2026. Yuli Edelstein was born in Chernivtsi in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine) to a Jewish family. His mother, Anita Edelstein, was Jewish…
Erdan in 2021
Erdan surveying the readiness of emergency services for stormy weather, with Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Police Commissioner Moti Cohen and Fire & Rescue Commissioner Dedi Simchi.
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and US ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft meet with Gilad Erdan, August 2020
Erdan with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem on 24 May 2021