Hanoch Milwidsky

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Hanoch Milwidsky
Milwidsky in 2022
Faction represented in the Knesset
2022–	Likud
Personal details
Born	(1973-12-13) 13 December 1973 (age 50) Jerusalem, Israel

Hanoch Dov Milwidsky (Hebrew: חנוך דב מילביצקי, born 13 December 1973) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud.

Milwidsky was born in 1973 in Jerusalem.^[1]

He earned an LLB at Reichman University and an MA in Jewish history at the University of Haifa.^[2] He worked as a legal advisor to the Bnei Baruch organisation.^[3]

In 2013 he was elected to Petah Tikva city council, going on to serve as deputy mayor.^[2] Previously a member of Yesh Atid, prior to the 2022 Knesset elections Milwidsky was placed twenty-sixth on the Likud list.^[4] He was elected to the Knesset as the party won 32 seats.

After the judicial reform attempt by the government and the mass reactions to it, followed by the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 invasion and onslaught and the ensuing protracted war, Milwidsky made a number of controversial statements.

In July 2024, after far-right Hardal protestors, including several members of the Knesset, stormed the IDF's Sde Teiman detention camp and rioted at the Beit Lid base, the headquarters of Israel's military courts and military police, because the military police had detained nine soldiers investigated for sexual violence against a Palestinian detainee, Milwidsky announced a "voting strike" in the Knesset. During the debate Milwidsky was asked if it was legitimate for Israeli soldiers to rape Palestinians by inserting a stick into the victim's rectum. Milwidsky responded "Yes! If he is a Nukhba [member of the Hamas special unit which led the October 7 onslaught], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!"^[5][6][7][8]

On 29 August 2024, while speaking with an ultra-Orthodox radio station, Milwidsky called on the public to stop cooperating with the court system, stating that

"The court is a place without justice. It's good to avoid arriving at the court. People should go to arbitration or rabbinical courts."^[9]

The head of the Israel Bar Association qualified this call as "complete societal disintegration and anarchy."^[9]

• Hanoch Milwidsky on the Knesset website