Eisenkot-led bloc proposes incoming MK Matan Kahana as next Knesset speaker, Liberman as FADC chair

Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party will nominate incoming MK Matan Kahana (Yashar) as the next Knesset speaker, the party announced on Tuesday morning.

He previously held the role of Religious Services minister from 2021 until 2022. He remained an MK until July 2025, when he resigned his seat.

Kahana is an IDF Colonel (res.) who served in the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal), serving concurrently with former prime minister and B'Yachad party leader Naftali Bennett. He later went to the Israel Air Force's Flight Academy and became an F-16 pilot, including during the Second Lebanon War.

Yashar also said it will nominate incoming MK Roy Folkman (17th on the party list) as chair of the Knesset's Arrangements Committee, incoming B'Yachad MK Liran Avisar Ben-Horin as chair of the Finance Committee, and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman as chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.