Gila Gamliel-Demri (Hebrew: גִּלָּה גַּמְלִיאֵל-דִּמְרִי; born 24 February 1974)[1] is an Israeli politician who currently serves as Minister of Science and Technology, and also as a member of the Knesset for Likud.
She was controversially re-elected to the post after her boyfriend, Sagiv Assulin, had removed members who opposed Gamliel's candidacy from the association's steering council.
She became a Knesset member when the party won 38 seats, standing down as head of the Ben-Gurion University students' union, where she was replaced by Assulin.
[2] Following her election to the Knesset, police decided to open an investigation into the suspected transfer of student funds into a private company.
[12] [13] It has been reported in the context of clandestine talks by some Israeli officials with Congolese counterparts with the goal of resettling Gazans to that African country, that she argued for their "humanitarian emigration", given the state of the Strip after the war.
[14] Whilst at Ben-Gurion University Gamliel dated Sagiv Assulin, with whom she worked closely together in the students' association, with the couple becoming known as "Sagilon".
[18] Gamliel did not at first disclose to investigators from the Health Ministry that she traveled from her home in Tel Aviv to Tiberias for Yom Kippur during a national lockdown.
Upon the disclosure that Gamliel apparently violated the lockdown and was not forthcoming with health investigators, the Movement for Quality Government in Israel called for her to resign from the Knesset.