Yuli Edelstein

Yuli Edelstein
יולי אדלשטיין
Official portrait, 2019

Ministerial roles
1996–1999	Minister of Immigrant Absorption
2009–2013	Minister of Information & Diaspora
2020–2021	Minister of Health
Faction represented in the Knesset
1996–2003	Yisrael BaAliyah
2003–2006	Likud
2007–	Likud
Other roles
2013–2020	Speaker of the Knesset

Personal details
Born	Yulian Yur'evich Edelshtein (Юлиан Юрьевич Эдельштейн) (1958-08-05) 5 August 1958 Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Spouse(s)	Tatiana Freivort (m. 1981; died 2014) Irina Nevzlin (m. 2016)
Children	2
Relatives	Leonid Nevzlin (father-in-law)
Education	Moscow Pedagogical Institute (expelled)

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Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (Hebrew: יולי יואל אדלשטיין, Russian: Юлий Йоэль Эдельштейн; born 5 August 1958) is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Health from 2020 to 2021 and served as chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee from 2022 until 2025. One of the most prominent refuseniks in the Soviet Union, he was the 16th Speaker of the Knesset from 2013 until his resignation on 25 March 2020.