Zvi Sukkot | |
|---|---|
 Sukkot in 2022 | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2023– | Religious Zionist Party |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 October 1990 |
Zvi Yedidia Sukkot (born 3 October 1990) [1] is an Israeli activist and politician currently serving as a Member of the Knesset for the Religious Zionist Party. Sukkot previously served as the Executive Director of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Zvi Sukkot lives in Yitzhar, and is married, with three children. [6] [7] He was a former representative of the far-right terror group known as "The Revolt". [6] [8] He is known for his participation in right-wing activism in Israel. [9]
On 18 January 2010, he was arrested along with 9 other people as part of an investigation of a mosque arson. [10] In 2012, he was expelled from the West Bank under suspicion that he was part of a group of 12 that had planned and carried out violent attacks against Palestinians and their property. The organization Honenu provided him with legal representation. [11] On 25 December 2015, he organized a demonstration against the Shin Bet in Tel Aviv in which he re-enacted the alleged torture of Jewish prisoners who were suspected to have been involved with the Duma arson attack. [12] [13] On 6 July 2017, he was arrested on suspicion of engaging in "price tagging". [14] On 13 December 2017, he filmed Arab stone-throwers in Yitzhar, and accused "Rabbis for Human Rights" of splicing and editing footage. [15] On 25 December 2017, he was arrested for protesting the demolition of a home in the outpost of Yishuv HaDa'at. [9] On 9 January 2018, he, along with other members from Otzma Yehudit, removed a "terror-inciting" billboard. [3] On 14 January 2018, he, along with other members of the leadership of Otzma Yehudit, organized a crowd-funding campaign to purchase drone equipment to film Arab stone-throwers. [16] [17]
Ahead of the 2022 Israeli legislative election, Sukkot was given the sixteenth spot on a joint list between Otzma Yehudit, the Religious Zionist Party and Noam, representing the Religious Zionist Party. [18] Two weeks later, at the onset of the Huwara rampage, Sukkot tweeted that "Huwara's killers' nest needs to be taken care of", and posted a picture of himself among a group of settlers gathering at Tapuach Junction, to the immediate south of Huwara. [19]
Sukkot in July 2024 urged his supporters to protest at Sde Teiman detention camp against the Israeli military police's detention of nine Israeli soldiers suspected of abuse of a Palestinian prisoner; Sukkot then joined other right-wingers in illegally invading the Sde Teiman detention camp, declaring that "we cannot investigate the soldiers until we investigate those who failed" to stop the 7 October attacks. [20] [21]
Sukkot entered the Knesset on 8 February 2023 as a replacement for Bezalel Smotrich, who resigned under the Norwegian Law. [22] On 1 November 2023, Sukkot was appointed chairman of the Knesset Subcommittee for Judea and Samaria. [23]
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