Gallant living free of charge in compound of billionaire Morris Kahn for past year

Former defense minister Yoav Gallant has been living for the past year free of charge in a private compound owned by billionaire Morris Kahn in the central Israeli town of Beit Yanai, Hebrew media reports.

Gallant and his wife were forced to leave their own villa in Amikam due to security warnings during Israel’s war with Hezbollah. Shortly after doing so, they moved into an apartment in Kahn’s compound.

Gallant lived there when he was an MK, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired him as defense minister in 2024. Gallant resigned from the Knesset in 2025 and has remained on the Kahn compound since.

Responding to reports on his living arrangement, a spokesperson for Gallant said, “Toward the end of his tenure as defense minister, Gallant was urgently evacuated from his home in Amikam in accordance with a directive from the Shin Bet security service. The agency asked him to find alternative housing in a place without a lot of people. The state offered to bear the costs of the alternative housing. Gallant initially moved between a number of residences. As part of these moves, and after his position as defense minister came to an end in November 2024, he moved to a small housing unit, attached to the house of Morris Kahn. On January 1, 2025, Gallant resigned from the Knesset and has been living as a private citizen.”