Miri Regev, 2026 positions · Likud

Regev told Ynet's election podcast she wants to stay at Transportation and put her name on the peace railway. In the same interview she ruled out the Defense portfolio outright: I do not want the Defense portfolio, I want the Transportation portfolio.

Who they are

Miri Regev is the transport and road safety minister and was the IDF Spokeswoman, leaving the army as a brigadier general. She was born Miriam Siboni in 1965 and grew up in Kiryat Gat in a Spanish-speaking home, daughter of Felix Siboni from Morocco and Marcelle Ben Zaken from Spain, who came to Israel in the 1950s. She went to the Ort Rogozin school, volunteered for years with Magen David Adom, and holds degrees in informal education from Beit Berl College and business administration from Ono Academic College.

Regev enlisted in 1983 and moved to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit in 1986 as Southern Command spokeswoman, later running the spokesperson’s bureau and heading its public relations branch. Made a colonel and deputy spokesperson in 2002, she was chief press censor from 2004 and became IDF Spokeswoman in June 2005, holding the post through the Gaza disengagement and the Second Lebanon War. She left the army in 2008, joined Likud that November and entered the Knesset the following year. As transport minister she announced a national rail plan in 2023 and a fares reform in 2024 that cut prices for some groups and raised the standard fare.

Police opened an investigation in June 2024 on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust and searched her ministry; she contested the seizure of documents in three courts and lost. The file was closed on 17 July 2025 for want of evidence.

Positions and record

Periphery: Budgets and infrastructure for development towns.

Culture: The loyalty-in-culture funding doctrine.

Base politics: Unfiltered defender of Netanyahu.

Judiciary: Said in June 2025 the government would not obey a High Court ruling reinstating the attorney general it had fired -- open defiance of the court's authority.

Where they stand

Breaks with the party line on 2 issues, marked below.

Judea & Samariaparty lineSovereignty over every part of the Land of Israel, pursued through budgets and construction rather than annexation bills, and no Palestinian state.

Two states / withdrawalSovereignty / annexation

Gaza & Securitypersonal positionCalled for occupying Gaza under a military government, and asked the cabinet to make Jewish resettlement of the Strip an official war goal

Deal & disengagementFull military control

Haredi Enlistmentparty lineIt governs with the Haredi parties and in July 2026 barred the arrest of draft evaders, while its own aims require regular service of every citizen.

Universal draftPreserve exemptions

Judiciaryparty lineThe judicial selection law takes effect with the next Knesset, giving the coalition the decisive voice in appointments. No override clause is sought.

Court can strike lawsKnesset can override

Economypersonal positionHer Transportation Justice reform cut fares for the periphery and made travel free from age 67 over Treasury objections, and she opposes rail privatisation

Social spendingFree market

Educationparty lineJewish tradition taught through the schools, and the core-studies rule kept on the books without ever being used to cut a budget.

State runs the schoolsParents and communities

Religion & Stateparty lineThe religious status quo, governed with its Haredi partners, alongside a guarantee of freedom of conscience.

Civil / pluralistReligious authority

Nation & Citizenshipparty lineThe Nation-State Law and Jewish self-determination, set beside equal rights for every citizen and the integration of minorities into the state.

Equal citizenshipJewish national state

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