Joaw Galant

Jo'aw Galant ( Hebrew יואב גלנט; * November 8, 1958 in Jaffa ) is a politician ( Likud ) and former major general ( Aluf ) in the Israeli army and commander of the southern command .

Life

Galant studied economics and financial management at the University of Haifa and graduated with a BA . He joined the Israeli Army Navy in 1977 and served in Flotilla 13 . In 1999 he changed the armed forces and has been in the rank of general since 2002 . In 2005 he was appointed commander of the Southern Command. He was also responsible for the Gaza Strip .

Galant was earmarked for the post of Chief of Staff as the successor to Gabi Ashkenazi . However, the appointment was withdrawn by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two weeks before he took office on suspicion of taking advantage of property sales around his property.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections in Israel , Galant stood for the recently founded social-conservative party Kulanu and won a seat in the Knesset . When the Kulanu entered the government, Galant was appointed Minister of Construction and Housing . On May 15, 2017, through Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Stuart E. Jones, the United States State Department announced that the Syrian government had killed prisoners in Saidnaya Prison and burned them in a crematorium. In the course of this announcement, Galant spoke on May 16, 2017 at the International C5I Security Conference in Latrun about the civil war in Syria and called for the liquidation of Bashar al-Assad .

In Benjamin Netanyahu IV's cabinet , he was initially minister of construction. Gallant resigned as Minister of Construction on January 2, 2019 and left his Kulanu party. Thereafter, he joined the Likud and was sworn in as Minister for Immigration and Integration on January 9, 2019 . In the Benjamin Netanyahu V cabinet , which was formed in May 2020, he took over the post of Minister of Education .

Galant is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Inge Günther: Israel's army without a boss. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 2, 2011, accessed February 4, 2011 . 
2. ^ Tumults at the swearing-in of Netanyahu's government , Zeit Online, May 15, 2015
3. ↑ Israeli minister calls for Assad to be killed. ORF, accessed on May 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ United States accuses Syria of killing thousands of prisoners. FAZ, May 15, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Two new ministers sworn in. In: Israelnetz .de. January 9, 2019, accessed January 19, 2019 . 

source

• Biography on the IDF website ( memento of February 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Hebrew)