33 Facts About Avi Yemini

Avraham Shalom Yemini is an Australian-Israeli far-right provocateur and commentator.

Avi Yemini has been involved in numerous cases of litigation, initiated both by him and against him.

Avi Yemini grew up in a large family in Melbourne, Victoria, and attended various Orthodox Jewish schools in Melbourne and overseas.

Avi Yemini later opened up and ran two gyms in the Melbourne area, both of which were sold in 2018.

In 2018, Avi Yemini unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Australian Liberty Alliance in the Victorian state election.

Avi Yemini was born in Melbourne, Victoria, to Zephaniah and Hava Waks, and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East.

Avi Yemini is one of seventeen children who were raised in an ultra-Orthodox Chabad family.

Avi Yemini attended Yeshivah College, and was later sent to ultra-Orthodox schools in the US, Israel and Brazil.

Avi Yemini returned to Melbourne when he was 16, and subsequently became addicted to heroin.

Avi Yemini spent the next two years in rehab, foster homes and crisis care.

Avi Yemini joined the IDF when he was 19, in an effort to address his drug addiction.

Avi Yemini served with the IDF's Golani Brigade from 2005 until 2008.

In 2015, Avi Yemini started his own Facebook page which he used to start building a profile by creating controversy.

Avi Yemini later ran as a candidate for the Australian Liberty Alliance in the Southern Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2018 state election.

In 2020, Avi Yemini became the Australian correspondent for the Canadian far-right outlet, Rebel News.

Avi Yemini is known for his performance skills and opportunistic nature.

Avi Yemini said he had shared the post to raise awareness of the intolerance faced by the Jewish community.

Waks dropped the lawsuit after Avi Yemini apologised a few months later.

In July 2019, Avi Yemini pled guilty to assault after he threw a chopping board that hit his former wife on her forehead in 2016.

Avi Yemini pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to harass by sending abusive text messages to her, and one charge of breaching an intervention order relating to a video of a man.

In September 2020, Avi Yemini initiated legal action against Victoria Police, for wrongful arrest and alleged assault during lockdown protests.

In June 2022 Victoria Police issued an apology acknowledging that Avi Yemini had been wrongly arrested on multiple occasions while reporting for Rebel News.

In 2021 Avi Yemini was ejected and banned from the Victorian Parliament precinct for 7 days after he gained access using a media pass issued by the federal Department of Home Affairs for foreign dignitary visits.

In March 2022, Avi Yemini launched legal action against Twitter user PRGuy17 claiming that tweets from the account were defamatory.

Avi Yemini claimed the decision was due to an article in The New Zealand Herald that described him and fellow content creator Rukshan Fernando as "Australian conspiracy commentators".

In 2023, Avi Yemini sued Facebook fact-checker RMIT FactLab after it debunked claims made by him in a story about the Shrine of Remembrance's CEO.

Avi Yemini claimed that the fact-checker had defamed him by accusing him of spreading misinformation.

Avi Yemini stated that "[w]e had to withdraw due to the risk of losing the case and having to pay costs on top".

Avi Yemini is critical of what he sees as a middle-class, soft-left ideology, which he believes is supported by "woke elites", an entitled political class, and the mainstream media.

Avi Yemini only wears a kippah when attending synagogue or being interviewed by the media.

Avi Yemini has described himself as a "proud Zionist" and as being "proudly anti-Islam".

Avi Yemini has described Islam as a "barbaric ideology", and Muslim countries as "Islamic shitholes".

At a 2018 demonstration against the imprisonment of Tommy Robinson, Avi Yemini declared himself to be "the world's proudest Jewish Nazi", later saying that it was an "obvious joke".