19 Facts About Shlomo Karhi

Shlomo Karhi is an Israeli politician and academic.

Shlomo Karhi is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and serving as the Minister of Communications in the thirty-seventh government.

Shlomo Karhi was born in Ramat Gan as the eldest of seventeen siblings in a religious family, to mother Mazal and father Rabbi David Shlomo Karhi, an Israeli-born Sabra of Tunisian Jewish heritage from Djerba.

At the age of four Shlomo Karhi moved to Zimrat, a religious moshav.

Shlomo Karhi was educated at the Kisse Rahamim and Mercaz HaRav yeshivas.

Shlomo Karhi subsequently served in the religious Netzah Yehuda Battalion during his national service in the Israel Defense Forces, before earning a BA in management accounting and information systems at the Jerusalem College of Technology.

Shlomo Karhi received a master's degree and PhD in industrial engineering and management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Shlomo Karhi began work as a lecturer at Sapir Academic College, before becoming part of the faculty at Ben-Gurion University and then Bar-Ilan University.

Shlomo Karhi was placed twenty-fifth on the Likud list for the April 2019 elections, a slot reserved for candidates from the Negev.

Shlomo Karhi was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 36 seats.

Shlomo Karhi was re-elected in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections after being placed twenty-seventh on the Likud list, and was re-elected again in 2021 and 2022.

In March 2023 Shlomo Karhi unveiled his plan for a communications market reform.

Shlomo Karhi announced the cancellation of the Second Authority and the Cable and Satellite Council, declaring an end to the era of "hyperactive regulation".

On 2 October 2023 Shlomo Karhi visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia among a 14-member delegation to attend the Universal Postal Union's Extraordinary Congress.

Later that month, Shlomo Karhi criticized former US President Donald Trump over his criticism of Netanyahu.

In March 2023 Shlomo Karhi sparked a widespread controversy during the Purim holiday in Israel.

Shlomo Karhi took to Twitter to address a group of individuals, including pilots, doctors, and members of the special operations unit, who had announced that they would not volunteer to serve in the reserves if the proposed legal revolution were to pass.

In 2023 Shlomo Karhi, serving as Israel's Minister of Communication, initiated a notable legislative action concerning foreign media.

Shlomo Karhi critiqued Al Jazeera, characterizing it as a "propaganda platform" and expressed concerns over its coverage, suggesting that it might be inciting adverse sentiments against Israel.