Birth Date: | 4 October 1985 |
Birth Place: | Afula, Israel |
Office1: | Faction represented in the Knesset |
Suboffice1: | Yesh Atid |
Subterm1: | 2021– |
Ron Katz (Hebrew: רוֹן כַּץ, born 4 October 1985) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid.
Katz was born in Afula in 1985. During his national service in the Israeli Defence Forces, he served in the Military Advocate General.[1] After earning an LLB,[2] he later worked as a civilian lawyer, specialising in family law and wills.[1]
After joining Yesh Atid, Katz became a party activist in Petah Tikva,[3] where he served as deputy mayor.[1] He also headed the city's education administration.[2] Prior to the 2021 Knesset elections he was placed sixteenth on the Yesh Atid list,[4] and was elected to the Knesset as the party won seventeen seats.