Who they are
Liran Avisar Ben Horin is a lawyer who spent her career in the civil service and ran the communications ministry. She was born in 1976 and grew up in Migdal HaEmek, the daughter of a father who came from Morocco at eleven on Youth Aliyah and became a Betar activist, and of a Tunisian-born mother. She ran the town’s Scouts troop as a girl and at seventeen travelled to Texas with a Scouts delegation. In the army she finished an officers’ course with distinction and commanded a company on the officers’ course for women in field units. She read management and then law at Tel Aviv University and took a master’s in law at New York University.
She began in public service as legal assistant on fiscal matters to the attorney general, Meni Mazuz, after interning in his office. In 2006 she left for four years in the United States, first as the Reform movement’s first aliyah emissary and then as head of the Jewish Agency’s aliyah delegation in North America. On her return she advised Eyal Gabbai, director-general of the prime minister’s office, ran the bureau of his successor Harel Locker for three years, and then directed the Masa project for six years. As director-general of the communications ministry she carried the optical fibre law, and she left the civil service in 2023.
Positions and record
Telecom: Competition and broadband reform from her DG tenure.
Governance: Part of Bennett's core of ex-officials.
Opposition: Committed to replacing the current coalition.
Media independence: As Communications Ministry director-general in 2023 she publicly pushed back on then-minister Shlomo Karhi's plan to shut down the public broadcaster, saying "we still live in a properly run state; you can't just wake up one morning and close down channels."
Where they stand
Holds the party line on every issue.