religion birth_place ministeryears party partyyears birth_date image article_title name minister
judaism haifa , israel 2013 -- -- 2015 2013 -- 2015 2013 -- 2015 jewish home 2013 -- 25 march 1972 naftali-bennett . jpg naftali bennett
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naftali bennett

naftali bennett -lrb- ; born 25 march 1972 -rrb- is an israeli politician who has led the right-wing , religious party the jewish home since 2012 .
he has served as israel 's minister of education since 2015 and minister of diaspora affairs since 2013 .
between 2013 and 2015 he held the posts of minister of economy and minister of religious services .
born and raised in haifa , the son of immigrants from the united states , bennett served in the sayeret matkal and maglan special forces units of the israel defense forces and subsequently became a software entrepreneur .
in 1999 , he co-founded and co-owned the encryption and network security software company cyota , selling the company in 2005 for $ 145 million .
he has also served as ceo of soluto , a cloud computing service , sold in 2013 for a reported $ 100 -- 130 million .
he entered politics in 2006 , serving as chief of staff for benjamin netanyahu until 2008 .
in 2011 , together with ayelet shaked , he co-founded the my israel extra-parliamentary movement .
in the 2013 knesset elections , the first contested by the jewish home under bennett 's leadership , the party won 12 seats out of 120 .
