Miri Regev

Miri Regev ( born May 26, 1965 as Miriam in Kiryat Gat Siboni ) is an Israeli politician and former Brigadier General. She was from June 2005 to July 2007 Press Officer of the IDF. She is a Member of the Knesset for the Likud.

Life and career

Regev joined with 18 years in the Army, serving in the early 1980s in the Gadna unit. From 1986, she was spokeswoman for the Israeli Southern Command and continuously rose to the rank order of the Public Relations Department. In 2002 she was promoted to deputy spokeswoman of the Israeli armed forces.

In 2004 she was Chefzensorin the press and the media, independent of the chain of command position, which also is not subject to the Cabinet. In June 2005, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and has held the post since the IDF spokeswoman. Since her English is not fluent, she has focused her work on the domestic press. She had been accused because of that, they have neglected the contacts with international media because they have given this to a few interviews. In July 2007, she was dismissed from the post.

In 2008 she joined Likud in and won primaries in the list position 27 for Knesstwahl in March 2009. Likud won 27 seats and Regev entered the Knesset. In the elections in January 2013 she was re-elected for Likud in the Knesset.

Racist statements

In the context of violence of Israeli youth during a demonstration against Sudanese refugees in Tel Aviv, said Regev, " the Sudanese are like a cancer in our body. " First, this statement Regev denied in retrospect, videos of the demonstration occupied but clearly their racist remarks. The following day, she apologized, but not in the Sudanese who had referred to as " cancer", but at Israeli cancer patients, that they would have degraded their sufferings, she had compared it with Africans. In a television interview Regev said in November 2012 she was " happy to be fascist ."