Zvika Fogel or Tzvika Foghel is an Israeli politician, activist and former military officer who serves as a member of Knesset for Otzma Yehudit following the 2022 Israeli legislative election.
21 Facts About Zvika Fogel
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Fogel was born on 3 November 1956 in Beersheba to the Romanian Ashkenazi couple of Haim and Dietza Fogel and grew up with a brother.
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Zvika Fogel moved to Kvutzat Kinneret during the 9th grade of his schooling and studied at the Beit Yerah High School.
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Zvika Fogel married Anat Fogel in 1982 and the two are parents of three sons.
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Zvika Fogel completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in general history, and his Master of Arts in organizational behavior.
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Zvika Fogel moved to Safed in 2007, following which he worked as an organizational consultant in Netanya and Petah Tikva.
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Zvika Fogel serves as the vice-chairman of the Firefighters' Association of the Eastern Galilee and the Golan.
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Zvika Fogel enlisted in a pilot course for the Israel Defense Forces in 1975, but did not finish the course and eventually became an officer in the Artillery Corps.
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Zvika Fogel completed his service in 1979, but rejoined the IDF in 1981 and remained an officer in the army until retiring in 2003 with the rank of tat aluf.
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Zvika Fogel commanded an artillery battery during the 1982 Lebanon War, and led the 334th Artillery Battalion during Operation Accountability in 1993 while serving as a colonel in the Northern Command.
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Zvika Fogel later approached Yoav Gallant in 2005 to set up the position of an "artillery coordinator" in all three divisions of the IDF, with all the weapons except small arms and tanks being stored in one place.
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Gallant agreed and Zvika Fogel was initially re-enlisted for 6 months as a reservist.
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Zvika Fogel helped set up and was assigned to the position of Artillery Coordinator for the Southern Command in late 2008.
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Zvika Fogel served as the artillery coordinator during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012.
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Zvika Fogel came in the third place in the elections and served on the city council until 2005.
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Zvika Fogel rejected the position, but accepted the offer of becoming a member of the town council instead.
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Zvika Fogel assumed the position of the head of the Tuba-Zangariyye Council in August 2008 after a year of being pressured by the Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit.
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Zvika Fogel decided to resign in January 2012, months after a riot due to an arson at a town mosque committed by Jewish extremists.
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Zvika Fogel has supported shooting any Arab who throws stones at an IDF soldier, while being lenient towards Jews who do the same.
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Zvika Fogel joined the Otzma Yehudit party in September 2022 and was placed tenth on the combined Religious Zionist Party-Otzma Yehudit list for the 2022 Israeli legislative election.
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In February 2023, Zvika Fogel announced his support for reprisal attacks against Palestinian villages in retaliation for terror attacks.