Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir, the far-right gadfly who heads the Jewish Power party, is one of the rising stars of Israel’s 2022 election. In just one year, Ben Gvir has become the most popular politician on the far right because of his vociferous opposition to the current coalition’s inclusion of the Islamist Ra’am party.
In Ben Gvir's frequent clashes with the Knesset’s Arab members, he always blames the fights on them, even accusing Ayman Odeh of attacking him when the Joint List chair blocked his way to the hospital room of a Palestinian hunger striker. He claims that they see him as the symbol of a far-right ideology and know that if he is elected, “the party would be over for them.”
