Shevah Stern

Stern grew up in Safed. During his national service in the Israel Defence Forces, he served in the 50th battalion of the Nahal Brigade. He subsequently earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Bar-Ilan University. One of the founders of the West Bank settlement movement, he moved to the settlement of Shilo when it was founded in 1978.[1] He also served as a director of the Amana settlement movement.[1] He worked as the manager of a software companies he owns.[1]

He joined Likud and became a member of its party centre. Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections he was given the thirty-eighth place on the Likud list, but failed to win a seat. He was placed thirty-eighth on the Likud list for the April 2019 elections,[2] but the party won only 35 seats. He was placed forty-first for the September 2019 elections,[3] in which Likud won 32 seats. Although he missed out again in the March 2020 elections in which he was placed forty-first and Likud won 36 seats, he entered the Knesset in December 2020 as a replacement for Michal Shir, who had resigned to join Gideon Sa'ar's New Hope party.[4] Placed thirty-eighth on the Likud list for the March 2021 elections, he lost his seat as Likud was reduced to 30 seats.

• Shevah Stern on the Knesset website