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Amichai Chikli

Amichai Chikli is an Israeli lawmaker as part of the Likud Party and current Diaspora affairs and combatting antisemitism minister and, until early January 2024, as social equality minister.

Chikli made waves in Israeli politics in 2021 while part of the Yamina Party after having a public split with the party leader and then-prime minister Naftali Bennett. 

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 An Iranian newspaper with a cover photo of US President Donald Trump and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is seen in Tehran, Iran, May 11, 2025.

US considers $30 b. Iran civilian nuclear deal, Iran denies any meeting with US next week

 Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli (R) and British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer (L); illustration.

Chikli: British Jews should leave UK if Labour remains in power

 Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar gives a statement to foreign press at the scene of damage to a mosque in Haifa, June 20, 2025.

Cognitive warfare: Israel needs to stop fighting defensively on hasbara

 Amichai Chikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism seen after a court hearing of the Shin Bet official arrested in suspicion of leaking classified information to a journalist and a Minister at the court in Lod, April 15, 2025.

Legal experts decry minister's illegal move in summoning A-G for arraignment

 Hamas terrorists against backdrop of Qatar flag. (illustration)

Qatar under Israeli attack for supporting radical Islam at CPAC conference in Hungary

 MK Gilad Kariv leads an Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on March 11, 2025.

Bill proposing 80% tax on NGO foreign aid may harm Diaspora Jews, Kariv warns

 MUSLIM PROTESTERS pray outside Columbia University’s main campus in March as they denounce the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, in New York City. The writer asks: Should Khalil, a radical leader, be protected because of ‘free speech?’

The 10 commandments for fighting antisemitism Jews need to embrace

Diaspora Ministry's State of Antisemitism Report 2024

Ireland, Spain, SA are enablers of antisemitism, Diaspora Min. report finds

 Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 27, 2025.

Chikli hails Shin Bet leaker as 'hero of Israel' as scandal erupts

 MILORAD DODIK, president of the Republika of Srpska, addresses his supporters in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in February. For Israelis, the strange story of Bosnia’s political turmoil should highlight the vast hypocrisy of European states, says the writer.

Illegitimate lawfare: Bosnia uses Israel as a battleground

 Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar speaking at the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025.

Diplomacy or war: The dilemma of politicizing the fight against antisemitism

By Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz seen in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025

Netanyahu: Antisemitism threatens free societies, who must join fight against it

 Sylvan Adams at a ceremony for torch lighters of the Independence Day state ceremony, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2023.

Sylvan Adams: Antisemitism conference critics focused on politics rather than dialogue

 Shabbos Kestenbaum testifies in court against Harvard University.

Shabbos Kestenbaum: Jewish students are today's leaders in fight against antisemitism

 Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli

Israel's antisemitism strategy: Picking political allies over Diaspora Jews

 Jordan Bardella, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party, speaks during a political rally in Etrepagny, France, December 15, 2024.

Islamism, radical Left root of antisemitism surge, French far Right leader tells 'Post'

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: Protesters attend a national rally for Palestine on January 18, 2025 in London, England. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are going ahead with a planned march after police placed a ban on it, citing the risk of causing "serious disruption" to a synagogue

The war on Jews has returned, and the West is complicit

By AMICHAI CHIKLI
 United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022

Chikli loses faith in Goldknopf over discriminatory land allocations to haredim