Yariv Levin

Yariv Gideon Levin (Hebrew: יריב גדעון לוין; born 22 June 1969) is an Israeli lawyer and politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, Minister of Interior and Minister of Religious Services. He served as Speaker of the Knesset in December 2022, previously serving in that role from 2020 to 2021. He currently serves as a member of Knesset for Likud, and previously held the posts of Minister of Internal Security, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Aliyah and Integration.

Levin has advocated reforms to Israel's judicial branch, most notably the 2023 Israeli judicial reform. Levin has refused to acknowledge Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit since his appointment in 2025, in what has been branded a constitutional crisis.

Levin was born in Jerusalem to Gail and Aryeh Levin, an Israel Prize laureate for linguistics. His mother's uncle, Eliyahu Lankin, was commander of the Altalena ship and a member of the first Knesset, representing Herut, whilst Menachem Begin was the Sandek at Levin's circumcision ceremony.

Levin studied at Boyar High School in Jerusalem. During his national service, he joined the IDF Intelligence Corps as an Arabic translator, and later served as commander of an Arabic translation course. In 1995 he published a dictionary of economic terms translated between Arabic, English and Hebrew.

Levin gained an LLB from the Hebrew University, and worked as a lawyer in the field of civil-commercial law. He married Yifat, daughter of former Knesset Member Ya'akov Shamai. They have three children and live in Modi'in.

Levin took part in establishing the New Young Lawyers Faction, known as Mahatz, which participated in internal elections for Israel Bar Association' institutions in 1999. Levin, who headed the Faction list, was elected to represent the faction on the National Council and the Jerusalem District Committee. In the National Council elections, Levin was elected Vice Chairman of the Israel Bar Association. Levin was also appointed Head of the Bar Association's salaried lawyers committee. In the 2003 elections for the Bar Association's institutions, the New Young Lawyers Faction increased their power,^{[citation needed]} and Levin became the designated acting Chairman of the Bar Association from 2003 to 2005.

During his time in the Bar Association, Levin took part in its legal aide project Schar Mitzvah, and led reforms in the rules of ethics for lawyers. Levin was among the initiators of the survey examining the conduct of judges in the courtrooms.^{[citation needed]}

Levin began his public activities in Likud's student faction at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he served as Spokesman and later as deputy chairman of the faction. In 1997, he headed a team that established the Likud branch in Modi'in, and was appointed the branch's chairman in 2003. Levin also served on a committee that supervised an internal Likud poll on the disengagement plan, and represented Members of the Knesset who opposed the plan in various legal proceedings.