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Ofir Sofer
אופיר סופר‎
Official portrait, 2023
Ministerial roles
2022–	Minister of Aliyah and Integration
Faction represented in the Knesset
2019	Union of Right-Wing Parties
2019	Yamina
2019–2020	Jewish Home–Tkuma
2020–2021	Yamina
2021	Likud
2021–	Mafdal–Religious Zionism
Personal details
Born	(1975-08-01) 1 August 1975 (age 49) Alma, Israel
Spouse	Adina
Children	7

Ofir Sofer (Hebrew: אופיר סופר, born 1 August 1975) is an Israeli politician. He is currently the Minister of Aliyah and Integration and a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism.

Sofer is a former IDF major and is considered a disabled veteran. Afterwards he worked at the Ministry for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee.

Political career

In 2014, he became secretary general of the Orthodox-nationalist Tkuma party. When the party joined the Union of Right-Wing Parties alliance for the April 2019 Knesset elections, Sofer was placed fourth on the alliances' list, and entered the Knesset when it won five seats. During the 2021 election he ran in Likud list for the Knesset, as a member of Atid Ehad party, using it as a shelf party. On 14 June he split from Likud and merged with the Religious Zionist Party, after the swearing-in of the 36th government. The split was not officially approved until 27 June.

Ahead of the 2022 election, Sofer was given the third spot on a joint list between the Religious Zionist Party and Otzma Yehudit, and was re-elected to the Knesset as a result. On 29 December 2022, Sofer was appointed Minister of Aliyah and Integration in the new government.

Personal life

Sofer is married, has 7 children, and lives in Tefahot, a religious moshav in Northern Israel.

He is of Tunisian-Jewish descent.

References

1. ^ "Ofir Sofer". Knesset. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
2. "'All cities in the Galilee will become mixed'". Israel National News. 15 July 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
3. "Here's the Full List of Israeli Lawmakers – and Only a Quarter Are Women". Haaretz. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
4. "Official: Ofir Sofer returns to the Religious Zionist Party". Srugim (in Hebrew). 14 June 2021.
5. "Ophir Sofer returns, Yamina waiting for Shai Maimon". Arutz 7 (in Hebrew). 14 June 2021.
6. @IsraelexLive (27 June 2021). "Ofir Sofer's request has been approved. He is now a Religious Zionist MK rather than a Likud MK. This reduces the size of the Likud's Knesset faction to 29, and increases the RZP's to 7" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 June 2021 – via Twitter.
7. "רשימת הציונות הדתית-עוצמה יהודית לבחירות לכנסת ה-25". www.maariv.co.il. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
8. Harkov, Lahav (22 April 2019). "Meet the New MK: Ofir Sofer, URP". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 13 December 2020.

External links

• Ofir Sofer on the Knesset website

• 1975 births
• Living people
• Atid Ehad politicians
• 20th-century Israeli military personnel
• 21st-century Israeli civil servants
• 21st-century Israeli military personnel
• Members of the Knesset with disabilities
• Israeli officers
• Israeli Orthodox Jews
• Israeli people of Tunisian-Jewish descent
• Jewish Israeli politicians
• Jewish military personnel
• Likud politicians
• Members of the 21st Knesset (2019)
• Members of the 22nd Knesset (2019–2020)
• Members of the 23rd Knesset (2020–2021)
• Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022)
• Members of the 25th Knesset (2022–)
• Moshavniks
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• The Jewish Home politicians
• Yamina politicians
• Midrashiat Noam alumni