Naftali Bennett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Naftali Bennett

Israeli politician

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1972

Place of Birth: Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

Profession: businessperson, politician, military officer, business executive

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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Naftali Bennett (Hebrew: ?????????? ??????; born 25 March 1972) is an Israeli politician who led the Jewish Home party between 2012 and 2018 and currently serves as an MK for New Right and as the head of the Ministry of Defense.
He served as Israel's Minister of Education from 2015 to 2019, and as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs from 2013 to 2019.
Between 2013 and 2015, he held the posts of Minister of Economy and Minister of Religious Services. Born and raised in Haifa, the son of immigrants from the United States, Bennett served in the Sayeret Matkal and Maglan special forces units of the Israel Defense Forces, taking part in many combat operations, and subsequently became a software entrepreneur.
In 1999, he co-founded, and co-owned, the US company Cyota, operating in the anti-fraud space, focused on online banking fraud, e-commerce fraud, and phishing.
The company was sold in 2005 for $145 million.
He has also served as CEO of Soluto, an Israeli cloud computing service, sold in 2013 for a reported $100–130 million.
He entered politics in 2006, serving as Chief of Staff for Benjamin Netanyahu until 2008.
In 2011, together with Ayelet Shaked, he co-founded the My Israel extra-parliamentary movement.
In the 2013 Knesset elections, the first contested by The Jewish Home under Bennett's leadership, the party won 12 seats out of 120.