Neftali Bennett: Multi-Millionaire Likely To Replace Benjamin Netanyahu

Naftali Bennett, 49-year-old who has made pitches to hard-right voters throughout his career, leads the Yamina party, which has called for Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.

Naftali Bennett, who on Sunday moved a step closer to replacing Israel's veteran premier Benjamin Netanyahu, is a multi-millionaire former tech entrepreneur who made a name in politics with hardline religious-nationalist rhetoric. The 49-year-old, who has made pitches to hard-right voters throughout his career, leads the Yamina party, which has called for Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. A bald politician with a discrete kippa and perfect American English, he is ultra-liberal on the economy and takes a hard line against Israel's arch-foe, Iran. He shares this ideology with Netanyahu and has served in several of the Likud leader's governments, but in recent years the two have become increasingly opposed.