Orly Levy-Abekasis
Israel
Gesher
Knesset member
government
Orly Levy-Abekasis is an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset. Formerly a model, Levy-Abekasis first entered the Knesset in 2009 as a representative of Yisrael Beiteinu, but left the party in 2017 to sit as an independent. In 2019, she formed her own party, Gesher, to contest the April 2019 elections. Although the party failed to win a seat, she returned to the Knesset following the September 2019 elections, in which Gesher ran together with the Labor Party. In May 2020, she was appointed by Prime Minister Netanyahu as the newly created Minister for Community Empowerment and Advancement.
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Aug 29, 2026
Far Left
Levy-Abekasis, now chairman of the Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee, is advancing a bill to raise the minimum wage and address housing costs.
Hadash welcomes these measures but criticizes them as too narrow, arguing they do not tackle the structural inequality affecting working-class Jews and Palestinians alike.