Former envoy to US Dermer named strategic affairs minister

Ron Dermer during an onstage interview at a conference organized by the Makor Rishon news outlet on May 9, 2021. (Screen capture/Facebook)
Ron Dermer during an onstage interview at a conference organized by the Makor Rishon news outlet on May 9, 2021. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Benjamin Netanyahu names former ambassador to the US Ron Dermer as strategic affairs minister.

He also names Likud MK Yoav Kisch as regional cooperation minister, a role Kisch will assume in addition to those of education minister and coordinator between the government and the Knesset.

Likud MK Israel Katz is named energy minister, after lobbying and failing to get the foreign minister post.

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