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Avi Yemini

Avraham Shalom Yemini ( Waks; Hebrew: אברהם שלום ימיני) is an Australian-Israeli far-right provocateur and commentator. Since 2020 he has worked as the Australian correspondent for Rebel News, a Canadian far-right website. Yemini has been involved in numerous cases of litigation, initiated both by him and against him.

Yemini grew up in a large family in Melbourne, Victoria, and attended various Orthodox Jewish schools in Melbourne and overseas. When he was 16 he became addicted to heroin and at the age of 19 joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in an attempt to get off drugs. He later opened up and ran two gyms in the Melbourne area, both of which were sold in 2018.

In 2018, Yemini unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Australian Liberty Alliance in the Victorian state election.

Yemini was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to Zephaniah (formerly Stephen) and Hava Waks, and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East. He is one of seventeen children who were raised in an ultra-Orthodox Chabad family. Yemini is a younger brother of Manny Waks.

Yemini attended Yeshivah College, and was later sent to ultra-Orthodox schools in the U.S., Israel and Brazil. He returned to Melbourne when he was 16, and subsequently became addicted to heroin. He spent the next two years in rehab, foster homes and crisis care.

Yemini joined the IDF when he was 19, in an effort to address his drug addiction. He served with the IDF's Golani Brigade from 2005 until 2008. Most of his active duty was spent along the border of the Gaza Strip. After returning to Australia, Yemini opened IDF Training, a gym in Caulfield, Victoria. The gym, known for training Krav Maga, was at the time described as largest training centre for the martial art in Australia. In 2016 he opened a second gym in the Melbourne central business district. In 2018, Yemini sold the gyms.

In 2015, Yemini started his own Facebook page which he used to start building a profile by creating controversy. In 2017 he worked as a content creator for the Australian Liberty Alliance. Yemini later ran as a candidate for the Australian Liberty Alliance in the Southern Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2018 state election. He was unsuccessful, receiving 0.49% of the vote. By 2019, Yemini was a staple in Australian far-right media, being a regular guest on The Bolt Report and Mark Latham's Outsiders.

In 2020, Yemini became the Australian correspondent for the Canadian far-right outlet, Rebel News. He is known for his performance skills and opportunistic nature. Through his work with Rebel, Yemini emerged as a critic of former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and his government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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