Miri Regev
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| Date of birth | 26 May 1965 |
| Place of birth | Kiryat Gat, Israel |
| Knessets | 18, 19, 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 2009– | Likud |
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| 2015– | Minister of Culture and Sport |
Miriam "Miri" Regev (née Siboni; Hebrew: מרים "מירי" רגב; born May 26, 1965) is an Israeli politician and a former Brigadier-general in the Israel Defense Forces, in which she served as IDF Spokeswoman. She is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and Minister of Culture and Sport.
Regev was born in Kiryat Gat in 1965 to a Moroccan Jewish father and a Spanish Jewish mother. In 1983 she joined the Gadna, where she became a platoon commander, serving in the position until 1986. She has a Master's Degree in Business and a Bachelor's Degree in Informal Education. She is married and has three children.
Revital Madar, an Israeli of Tunisian Jewish descent writer for Haaretz, has argued that Miri Regev had faced discrimination due to the fact that she is an Israeli woman of Moroccan Jewish heritage, whose forthright behaviour is perceived as being stereotypically Mizrahi.
She then began serving as the IDF Spokesperson's representative in the Israeli Southern Command. Regev was promoted to a Colonel rank for the position of Deputy IDF Spokesperson in 2002. In 2003, she was appointed coordinator of the national public relations efforts at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in preparation for the Iraq War. After a short stint (2004–2005) as the Chief Press and Media Censor, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and to the position of IDF Spokesperson in 2005. She served in this position during Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005 and the 2006 Lebanon War. In 2007, she was discharged and was succeeded by Avi Benayahu.
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