12 Facts About Dan Illouz

Dan Eliyahu Ya'akov Illouz was born on 21 February 1986 and is a Canadian-born Israeli politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party since January 2023.

Dan Illouz has a degree in law from McGill University, and a degree in public policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dan Illouz moved to Israel from Montreal in 2009, at the age of 23.

Dan Illouz became a member of Hitorerut, a political party in Jerusalem, and became a member of the Jerusalem City Council in March 2018 following the resignation of another councillor.

Dan Illouz was elected to the council in the October 2018 municipal elections, and resigned from the council in 2021 as part of a rotation agreement with Yosef Spiezer.

In 2022 Dan Illouz decided to seek election to the Knesset as a member of the Likud, participating in primaries held by the party ahead of an upcoming legislative election.

Dan Illouz ran for the reserved immigrant spot on the Likud list against then-incumbent MK Gadi Yevarkan.

However, after the swearing-in of the thirty-seventh government of Israel, several Likud ministers resigned their seats under Israel's Norwegian law, and Dan Illouz entered the Knesset on 6 January 2023.

In October 2024, Dan Illouz broke ranks with the Likud over proposed legislation to provide government subsidies to Haredi yeshiva students who do not perform military service.

The Likud punished Dan Illouz by removing him from the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee and Foreign affairs and Defense Committee, and by preventing him from submitting private bills in the Knesset.

The legislation was withdrawn after enough MKs from the coalition, including Dan Illouz, opposed it to the point that the coalition's majority was in doubt.

Dan Illouz married Bat-El Malka, then Or Akiva's municipal architect, in 2019.