He attended the Herzliya Hebrew High School between 1987 and 1991 and served as youth correspondent for the weekly "Ma'ariv LaNoar" magazine.

Akunis continued to serve as Netanyahu's advisor until 2008 when he was appointed deputy director of communications and information for the Likud.

During a pre-vote debate, Akunis said, "Zoabi did not stop undermining the State of Israel, and openly incited against it and against IDF soldiers.

[4] The appointment, made by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, came a week after the massive crude oil spill in Israel's Arava region.

Akunis instructed that the reserve remain closed as long as high values of pollutants were still registered in air quality tests.

According to Akunis, the NIS 17 million program would serve to treat the soils contaminated by the spill as well as help restore the wildlife populations damaged over the course of the event.

As part of the plan, a special team would be appointed to evaluate the environmental impact of various Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company activities on both dry land and beaches.

The approved plan also involved opening a closed Eilat beach on EAPC-owned property to the city's residents and visitors.

[8] In October 2014, Akunis announced that the government had allocated NIS 1.8 million to provide tablets for each and every child living in the south.

These changes were criticized by his predecessor, Minister Gilad Erdan, and received support from the Ministry of Finance and The New General Workers Union.

During his first term, he led significant reforms aimed at expanding technology access to all Israeli citizens, especially in underserved communities and the periphery.

Throughout his tenure, he signed 30 international agreements to strengthen cooperation between Israel and other states, including the US, the UK, India, Japan, China, Argentina and many others.

Under his watch, Israel signed the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, as well as Kosovo.

And at his initiative, the ministry sent the first-ever municipal delegation of Israel’s Jewish and Arab mayors to the UAE, at the invitation of their Minister of International Cooperation, Reem Al Hashimy.

[15] Akunis also hosted the first Bahraini trade delegation to Israel, led by Bahrain's Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Zayed Al-Zayani.

[16] In 2021, Akunis established the Knesset’s Abraham Accords Caucus, the first of its kind, serving as a model for parliaments around the world.

The caucus's launch in the Knesset was attended by, among others, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A vote in the cabinet on this nomination was ruled illegal by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and also the Israeli Supreme Court.