Likud senior and former minister Amir Ohana has become the first openly gay Knesset speaker in Israel's history, becoming Israel's fourth most important figure in terms of protocol.
Ohana, 46, is used to breaking records. In 2011 he founded the Likud’s LGBTQ faction, the first such group within the political right. In 2013 he led a campaign for changing the Likud party's constitution to include battling gender-based discrimination. In 2015, he entered the Knesset, and in 2019 he became the first openly gay person to be nominated minister, serving first as justice minister and then as public security minister. He was also member of the Knesset’s prestigious Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
