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Yoav Gallant
Yoav Gallant · Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Yoav Gallant

b. 1958

Israeli politician and former military officer (born 1958)

Born
8 Nov 1958 · Jaffa
Part ofIsrael1,457 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 78 years
  1. 8 Nov 1958BornBorn in Jaffa
  2. 2006War2006 Lebanon War
  3. 2008 – 2009WarGaza War (2008–2009)
  4. 2015 – 2019RoleKnesset member
  5. 2015 – 2019RoleMinister of Construction
  6. 2019 – 2020RoleMinister of Immigration and Absorption
  7. 2019RoleKnesset member
  8. 2020 – 2021RoleKnesset member
  9. 2021 – 2022RoleKnesset member
  10. 2022 – 2025RoleKnesset member
  11. 2022 – 2024RoleMinister of Defense of Israel
  12. 2023WarGaza War
  13. 2023WarHezbollah–Israel conflict (2023–present)
  14. 2024War2024 Lebanon War

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1958 – today).

  1. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  3. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  5. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  7. 1968Prague Spring
  8. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  9. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  10. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  13. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  14. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  15. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  16. 1985Schengen Agreement
  17. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  18. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  19. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  21. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  23. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  24. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  25. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  26. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  27. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  28. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  29. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  30. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  31. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  32. 20112011 Norway attacks
  33. 2011Libyan civil war
  34. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  35. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  36. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  38. 2015Paris Agreement
  39. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2020COVID-19 pandemic

Biography

Yoav Gallant (Hebrew: יוֹאָב גָּלַנְט‎; born 8 November 1958) is an Israeli politician and former military officer who served as minister of defense between 2022 and 2024. Gallant was an officer in the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces, serving in the Israeli Navy. In January 2015, he entered politics, joining the new Kulanu party. After being elected to the Knesset he was appointed minister of construction. At the end of 2018 he joined Likud, shortly after which he became minister of Aliyah and Integration.

In 2020 he was appointed minister of education, and the following year became minister of defense. On 5 November 2024, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had dismissed Gallant, effective 7 November, and sought to have Israel Katz replace him. Gallant subsequently resigned from the Knesset on 5 January 2025.

On 21 November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Gallant, along with Netanyahu and three Hamas leaders, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Gaza war.

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