19 Facts About Oren Hazan

Oren Hazan served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019.

The son of former Likud Knesset member Yehiel Hazan, Oren served in the Israeli Air Force during his IDF national service.

Oren Hazan studied law at Ono Academic College, where he was chairman of the student union.

Oren Hazan was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.

Oren Hazan was the second legislator in the history of the State of Israel to be suspended, with MK Haneen Zoabi being the first one.

Oren Hazan placed 35th in the pre-April 2019 Israeli legislative election Likud primaries, a slot thought to have been too low to have a realistic chance for getting reelected to the Knesset.

Oren Hazan therefore re-established the Tzomet party and ran on its list in the elections.

In November 2015, Oren Hazan was suspended from the Knesset for a month after accusing Meretz MK Issawi Frej of double voting, after Yesh Atid MK Karin Elharar asked for assistance as she has muscular dystrophy.

In December 2017, Oren Hazan stopped a bus on its way to Nafha Prison, telling the Palestinian relatives that the prisoners were "terrorists who belong in the ground".

Oren Hazan shouted at one prisoner's mother that her son was an "insect" and a "dog".

Oren Hazan endorsed the candidature of Marine Le Pen in the 2017 French presidential election, though the Israeli government officially boycotts her National Front movement.

In January 2018, when being interviewed by the BBC, Oren Hazan said, regarding the recently arrested Ahed Tamimi, that he would like to, "kick her in the face" so that she would end up in the hospital.

In July 2018, during an interview to Australian-Israeli activist Avi Yemini, Oren Hazan stated that illegal immigrants from Africa constituted a threat to Israel, which would destroy the country.

In September 2018, Oren Hazan was rebuked by the Israeli Foreign Ministry for meeting with the leader of the Bulgarian nationalist party Attack, Volen Siderov, who has previously made antisemitic remarks, without notifying the ministry beforehand.

Oren Hazan claimed that Siderov privately apologized for his previous statements.

Shortly after his election in 2015, Channel 12 reported that Oren Hazan had hired prostitutes and used hard drugs during a trip to Bulgaria.

Oren Hazan sued for libel, but the lawsuit was thrown out of court because the reportage was deemed "responsible, serious journalism and reflected the reality as it was".

On 9 September 2019, Oren Hazan was sentenced to 100 hours of community service for an incident in 2014 when he had assaulted a civil servant for freezing his mother's bank account for nonpayment of taxes.

Oren Hazan's first child, a daughter, was born on 28 August 2017.