Gila Gamliel

Gila Gamliel-Demri (; born 24 February 1974) She also previously served as Minister for Social Equality, Minister of Environmental Protection and Minister of Intelligence.

Early life and education Gamliel was born in Gedera.

Career Gamliel was placed 25th on the Likud list for the 1999 elections, but missed out on a place in the Knesset when the party won only 19 seats. In 2003 she surprisingly won 11th place on the Likud list for the elections that year, ahead of several cabinet ministers. She became a Knesset member when the party won 38 seats, standing down as head of the Ben-Gurion University students' union, where she was replaced by Assulin. She was also accused of blackmailing a fellow student council member in order to retain the chairmanship of the students' association of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev at the time. Gamliel denied both accusations. In November 2003, the fraud police decided to stop the investigations against her because of the lack of sufficient evidence.

In June 2003 she and three other Likud MKs were banned from the Likud faction for three months after voting against government economic policy. During her first term in the Knesset she chaired the Committee on the Status of Women, and in March 2005 was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture.

On 17 May 2020 Gamliel took up a different cabinet post when she was sworn in as Minister of Environmental Protection, which she held until 2021. On 2 January 2023 Gamliel became the Minister of Intelligence.

In 2023 Gamliel suggested the "voluntary resettlement of Palestinians in Gaza" is an option. It has been reported in the context of clandestine talks by some Israeli officials with Congolese counterparts with the goal of resettling Gazans to that African country, that she argued for their "humanitarian emigration", given the state of the Strip after the war.

In July 2025, she was appointed as a member of the Shikli Committee, formed in order to recommend the termination of Gali Baharav-Miara from the post of the Attorney General.

In August 2025 the Haaretz newspaper exposed that a network of Twitter accounts was coordinating the distribution of messages from Gamliel on the subject of Iran, with many of the accounts registered in Iran.

Gamliel's position on Likud's electoral list ahead of the 2026 Israeli legislative election dropped to the 35th slot following a recount several weeks after the 2026 Likud primary concluded.

Personal life Whilst at Ben-Gurion University Gamliel dated Sagiv Assulin, with whom she worked closely together in the students' association, with the couple becoming known as "Sagilon". Assulin was also on the Likud list for the 2009 elections, but in 35th place and he failed to win a seat. Gamliel is now married to Hovev Damari,

On 3 October 2020 Gamliel tested positive for COVID-19. Gamliel did not at first disclose to investigators from the Health Ministry that she traveled from her home in Tel Aviv to Tiberias for Yom Kippur during a national lockdown. She had instead told investigators from the Health Ministry that she caught COVID-19 from her driver. Upon the disclosure that Gamliel apparently violated the lockdown and was not forthcoming with health investigators, the Movement for Quality Government in Israel called for her to resign from the Knesset.