New Knesset Finance Committee head wears MAGA hat to office, says it’s ‘for all the right reasons’

Knesset Finance Committee chairman Hanoch Milwidsky has tweeted a photograph of himself holding a meeting in his office while wearing a red MAGA cap.

“The silence in the Knesset has ended, preparing for the next discussion of the Finance Committee,” he writes, as his committee prepares to resume its activities despite the current legislative recess.

Milwidsky adds in a follow-up tweet that he is wearing the cap “for all the right reasons” but does not immediately respond to The Times of Israel’s request for elaboration.

Not for “some reason”. For all the right reasons.

— חנוך מילביצקי – Hanoch Milwidsky (@hanochmilwidsky) September 3, 2025

The Likud lawmaker was appointed to his position as chairman of the Finance Committee in late July despite an ongoing police investigation against him on suspicion of rape and witness tampering. He replaced MK Moshe Gafni, whose United Torah Judaism party quit the coalition earlier that month over its failure to pass a law exempting yeshiva students from military service.

“Ignore the stupid gimmick for a moment, pay attention to something else — this room is not the office of the Finance Committee chairman. The one who stayed in the Finance Committee chairman’s office is the previous chairman, Gafni. Why?” writes Yesh Atid MK Vladimir Beliak, retweeting Milwidsky’s post.

“Because the Likud is interested in bringing Gafni back to the coalition as soon as possible. Gafni will not return without the evasion law and without canceling the sanctions on draft dodgers. And that’s what the Likud promised to give him: the evasion law and budgets for draft dodgers. This is a great betrayal of the reservists and the Israeli middle class by Netanyahu’s party.”