Nitzan Horowitz

Nitzan Horowitz (; Transliterated: ; born 24 February 1965) is a politician and former journalist who served as Israel's Minister of Health from 2021 to 2022. He is the former leader of Meretz. He previously was the chief U.S. correspondent and commentator for the Israeli News Company, known as Channel 2 News. He served two full terms in the Knesset (2009–2015) on the Meretz list. Before being elected to the Knesset, he was the Foreign Affairs commentator and head of the International desk at Hadashot 10, the news division of Channel 10. In 2013, he ran for mayor of Tel Aviv. In June 2019, he won the Meretz leadership election, ans served as the Minister of Health. In July 2022, he announced that he would step down as Meretz's leader. Early life Horowitz was born in Rishon LeZion in 1965. He graduated from Tel Aviv University Law School and began working as a journalist. He supported the International Criminal Court's probe into Israel's alleged war crimes. Journalism career In his early career, he served as a military affairs reporter during the latter phase of the 1982 Lebanon war, as well as the international news editor at Army Radio from 1983 to 1987. In 1987, he began working at the Hadashot newspaper as the foreign affairs editor. In 1989, he moved to Haaretz, working as the foreign affairs editor. He served as a Haaretz correspondent in Paris between 1993 and 1998, covering the European Union, and as a Haaretz correspondent in Washington, D. C., from 1998 until 2001. After returning to Israel, Horowitz served as the chief foreign affairs columnist for Haaretz.