Gideon Sa'ar is an Israeli politician and is currently a minister-without-portfolio as part of the National Unity Party.
He was born in Tel Aviv, where he also primarily grew up. He holds degrees in law and political science from Tel Aviv University.
He is married to Israeli news anchor Geual Even with whom he has two children. He has two other children from his first wife, Shelly.
Sa'ar clerked as an aide to the attorney-general and then for the state attorney before swerving into politics in 1999, eventually winning a seat in the Knesset on the Likud's list.
After taking a hiatus from politics, Sa'ar returned in 2017 and in December 2020 announced the formation of his own political party, New Hope.
In Israel's 36th government headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid Sa'ar took the position of justice minister.
In the current government, Sa'ar sits in the National Unity Party, a merger between his own party and the party of Benny Gantz. Though having been a member of the opposition for most of the current Knesset's tenure, he and his party joined as part of an emergency government due to the war with Hamas.
In a recent election poll, Gantz weakens slightly but remains stable, as voters continue to see him as a viable option for prime minister over Netanyahu.
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Gideon Sa’ar stressed that he and his party tried to get the government to change its approach to the war.
Gideon Sa'ar wrote on X, "The time has come when Israel should present the idea of surrender and exile (of the remainder of Hamas' military wing) as an orderly idea to end the war in Gaza.”
Forcing a Hamas surrender can be an alternative to the Rafah invasion, Danon and Sa'ar say.
"I do not rule out the possibility of running as part of a list that will lead to a change of discourse and a connection between the conservative and liberal publics," Ronen Tzur said.
According to Sa'ar, the decision-making process made in the small war cabinet is problematic, and the MK has demanded to become a member of the smaller cabinet.
Conflict arose within the government after the coalition announced that it would proceed with a bill proposal that Gantz and Sa'ar vetoed.
MK Ze'ev Elkin told 103FM that the partnership between Sa'ar and Gantz ended because Gantz was not interested in forming a joint democratic party.
From the Likud’s perspective, the move was a positive development, as it weakened both Gantz’s and Ben-Gvir’s leverage over Netanyahu.
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