Idan Roll

Idan Roll (Hebrew: עִידָן רוֹל, born 27 April 1984) is an Israeli politician, model and lawyer who is a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid. He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs under the administration of Yair Lapid.

Idan Roll
Faction represented in the Knesset
2019Blue and White
2020–2021Blue and White
2021Yesh Atid
2022–Yesh Atid
Personal details
Born (1984-04-27) 27 April 1984
Jerusalem, Israel
Spouse
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(m. 2021)​

Biography

Roll was born in Jerusalem and moved to Mevaseret Zion as a child, attending Harel High School. He started his national service in the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, serving in the Israeli Intelligence Corps in a technology unit in central Israel, before completing an officer course and becoming cadet commander. After completing his national service, he began serving in the reserves in the Military Intelligence Directorate.

In 2007 he started studying at Tel Aviv University law school. Whilst at university, he joined StandWithUs, and worked as a model. After graduating, he joined Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal's commercial department. He also completed a master's degree in public law, and later worked in law firms specialising in high-tech, mergers and acquisitions.

Political career

Having previously been a member of the New Likudniks faction of Likud,[1] Roll joined the Yesh Atid party, and became head of its LGBTQ group.[2] He was part of the Yesh Atid list for Tel Aviv-Yafo city council in the 2018 municipal elections. After the party joined the Blue and White alliance for the April 2019 Knesset elections, he was given the thirty-fourth slot on the joint list,[3] and was subsequently elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 35 seats. Although he retained thirty-fourth place on the Blue and White list for the early elections in September 2019, the alliance was reduced to 33 seats, resulting in Roll losing his seat.

He was placed thirty-fourth on the Blue and White list for the March 2020 elections. Although the party won 33 seats, Roll entered the Knesset after Yael German (who was thirteenth on the list) retired.[4] He was re-elected in the 2021 elections, in which Yesh Atid ran alone. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the new government, after which he gave up his Knesset seat under the Norwegian Law. He was re-elected in the 2022 elections.

Personal life

On 5 March 2021 Roll married pop singer Harel Skaat in Provo, Utah, United States.[5][2][6] They have two children, born via surrogacy in 2018 and in 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. On 7 March 2021, Skaat and Roll announced their wedding on social media, which had taken place on 5 March 2021 in Provo, Utah, USA.

References
  1. מספר 14 ב'יש עתיד' מציג: מהפך אידיאולוגי Twenty, 25 February 2019
  2. Israel 2019 elections: Meet the LGBTQ candidates A Wider Bridge, 19 March 2019
  3. 2019 Blue and White list CEC
  4. Winer, Stuart. "Blue and White MK Yael German retires from Knesset due to flagging health". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  5. "אם תרצו אין זו אגדה." Facebook.
  6. "Meet the New MK: Idan Roll, Blue and White". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
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