Yoel Hasson
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| Date of birth | 4 April 1972 |
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Knessets | 17, 18, 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 2006–2012 | Kadima |
| 2012–2013 | Hatnuah |
| 2015– | Zionist Union |
Yoel Hasson (Hebrew: יואל חסון, born 4 April 1972) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Kadima and Hatnuah.
Born in Tel Aviv and raised in Rishon Letzion, Israel. He attended boarding school in Herzliya. Before joining the IDF, he volunteered with adolescent children for one year. He served in the IDF as a staff sergant for the Shlomo Ben Yosef Kernel, Battalion 905 of the Nahal Brigade.
Hasson later studied at IDC Herzliya and received hisa BA in Government and Public Administration. In April 2012, he married Tess, a news editor on the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) News Channel. They have a 3-year-old son named Ido.
Hasson became involved in Israeli politics from a young age. In 1997, at the age of 24, Hasson began working as a parliamentary consultant for MK Uzi Landau, when Landau served as chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. From 1998 to 2001, Hasson acted as national head of Betar. After the Likud won the 2001 elections and Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister, Hasson was appointed head of the Public Affairs Division in the Prime Ministers Office.
In 2001, Hasson also became chairman of the Council of Israeli Youth Movements, a position he held until 2003. He also served as a member of the Authority for the Advancement of Women and the Israel Women's Network.
In 2005, PM Sharon made a political shift, left the Likud and established the centrist Kadima party. Hasson and other figures from the liberal wing of the Likud and from the Labor party, such as Tzipi Livni and Shimon Peres, also joined Kadima under Sharon’s leadership. In the 2006 elections, Hasson was elected 29th on Kadima’s primary list, which won 29 seats for the Knesset. In June 2006, Hasson was nominated as the President of the 35th World Zionist Congress.
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