Gilad Erdan speaks frankly, in measured tones, and without spouting the clichés that politicians so often use. That has endeared him to Likud voters.
LAND HO! The courage of Erdan’s convictions enabled him some years back to stand at the Knesset podium open a Chumash Bereishis and look the Arab MKs squarely in the eye as he read them the first Rashi noting how G-d gave the Land of Israel to the Jews (Photos: Ezra Trabelsi Flash90 GPO)
M ost politicians are unafraid to speak their minds — while others are not mindful of what they say.
Gilad Erdan falls squarely into the first category. The number two man on the Likud Party list behind Binyamin Netanyahu Erdan is near the top of the short list of party members who might one day be prime minister. In the current Knesset he holds the cabinet posts of Public Security Strategic Affairs and Information. Not every Knesset Member especially those on the left agrees with Erdan’s positions but his consistency and ability to express his views without being strident has won him respect even from political opponents.
Growing up in the 1970s in Ashkelon then a development town along Israel’s Mediterranean coast Gilad Erdan experienced a series of culture shocks with his family’s sudden decision to enroll him in a top yeshivah high school in Jerusalem.
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