Liron Hantz – the niece of the media person Yaakov Bardugo who is close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – was appointed at the end of the week as Deputy Director of Administration and a member of the Prime Minister’s Office. This is a position of trust.
The Government and Society Division is a tool for carrying out national headquarters work in the social field and leading government reforms, according to the instructions of the Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office and in accordance with the Prime Minister’s policy.
Until a few months ago, Hantz served as the VP of Strategy, Policy and Planning at the Ministry for Social Equality. She was appointed to the position during the time of Gila Gamliel as Minister for Social Equality. Gamliel also previously appointed her as the head of the Authority for Social Economic Development of the Ministry’s minority sector. Her employment contract expired during the tenure of Merav Cohen as minister of welfare and was not renewed.