Naftali Bennett
Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022
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| April 2025 | Registered a new political party called Bennett 2026, with uncertainty about running in the next Knesset election. |
| September 2024 | A report indicated that Bennett would return to politics. |
| October 2023 | Amid the Israel–Hamas war, Bennett voiced his support for Israel's total blockade of the Gaza Strip. |
| October 2023 | Immediately following the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Bennett enlisted to do reserve duty, serving in the emergency storage unit of the IDF's Technological and Logistics Directorate. |
| May 2023 | Following his retirement, Bennett joined the board of directors of Israeli Tech company Quantom Source. |
| November 8 2022 | Bennett's resignation as Alternate Prime Minister became effective. |
| November 6 2022 | Bennett announced his resignation as Alternate Prime Minister. |
| July 1 2022 | Lapid succeeded Naftali Bennett as prime minister. |
| June 30 2022 | Became the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel. |
| June 30 2022 | The Knesset was officially dissolved, ending Bennett's term as prime minister. |
| June 30 2022 | Naftali Bennett became the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel. |
| June 29 2022 | Bennett announced that he would not seek re-election in the upcoming Knesset election. |
| June 20 2022 | Bennett announced he would call for a vote to dissolve the Knesset and step down as prime minister following the dissolution. |
| June 13 2022 | Yamina MK Nir Orbach leaves the coalition, arguing that left-wing members are holding it hostage. |
| April 6 2022 | Yamina MK Idit Silman resigned from the coalition, causing the governing coalition to lose its majority in the Knesset. |
| March 5 2022 | Bennett met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, offering to mediate between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. |
| February 14 2022 | Bennett visited Manama, marking the first official visit of an Israeli Prime Minister to Bahrain. |
| January 2 2022 | Government approves a fourth overall COVID-19 shot for individuals aged 60 or older amid Omicron variant surge. |
| 2021 | During coalition negotiations following the Knesset election, Bennett agreed not to annex any territory in the West Bank as part of a unity government. |
| December 12 2021 | Bennett made a historic visit to the United Arab Emirates, becoming the first Israeli Prime Minister to visit the country, where he met with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed. |
| September 27 2021 | Bennett addresses the United Nations General Assembly, denouncing Iran's alleged state-sponsored terrorism and warning about its nuclear ambitions. |
| August 29 2021 | COVID-19 booster shot expanded to all adults. |
| August 29 2021 | The Israeli government expanded the approval of a second booster shot to all adults in response to the ongoing pandemic. |
| August 27 2021 | Bennett meets with US President Joe Biden during his first visit to the United States. |
| August 1 2021 | The Israeli government approved a second booster shot for all individuals aged 60 or older amidst the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19. |
| June 2021 | Forbes Israel reported that Bennett was expected to make $5 million from his investment in the American fintech company Payoneer. |
| June 13 2021 | Bennett was sworn in as the 13th prime minister of Israel. |
| June 2 2021 | Bennett agreed to a rotation government with Yair Lapid, where he would serve as Israel's prime minister until 2023. |
| May 30 2021 | Bennett announced that he would be the prime minister in a rotation government until August 2023, at which point Yair Lapid would take over as prime minister. |
| May 9 2021 | Bennett and Leader of the Opposition Yair Lapid made significant progress in coalition talks to form a new Israeli government that would remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office. |
| March 2021 | Yamina won seven seats in the 2021 Knesset election. |
| May 2020 | With negotiations to form a new government, Yamina announced it would go into opposition, ending Bennett's tenure as Defense Minister. |
| March 2020 | Yamina won six seats in the 2020 Knesset election. |
| January 2020 | Bennett became the leader of the reunified Yamina alliance. |
| January 2020 | The Yamina alliance was reunified, with Bennett succeeding Ayelet Shaked as the new leader ahead of the 2020 Knesset election. |
| 2019 | The Yamina alliance, led by Ayelet Shaked, won seven seats in the Knesset election, and Bennett regained his seat. |
| 2019 | Bennett rejoined Netanyahu's government as Minister of Defense. |
| 2019 | Bennett regained his seat in the September 2019 Knesset election as a member of the New Right and was appointed Minister of Defense. |
| 2019 | In the April Knesset election, the New Right narrowly failed to cross the electoral threshold, resulting in Bennett not gaining a seat. |
| September 2019 | Following the Knesset's dissolution and a second election called, the New Right formed an alliance with the Jewish Home and National Union-Tkuma, named the United Right, later renamed Yamina. |
| June 2019 | Bennett left the government after Netanyahu dismissed him from his positions as Education and Diaspora Affairs Minister. |
| June 2019 | After losing his Knesset seat in the April 2019 elections, Bennett was dismissed by Netanyahu as Education Minister. |
| December 2018 | Bennett left The Jewish Home to form the New Right party. |
| November 16 2018 | Bennett announced his desire to become the Defense Minister but had his request rejected by Netanyahu. |
| November 2016 | Bennett claimed that the election of Donald Trump ended the viability of the two-state solution. |
| October 2016 | Bennett asserted that Israel must act decisively regarding Judea and Samaria, indicating a commitment to making them part of the sovereign State of Israel. |
| 2015 | Following his reelection, Bennett was appointed Minister of Education and retained the Diaspora Affairs portfolio. |
| 2015 | Bennett was reelected as the leader of The Jewish Home party. |
| 2015 | Bennett was appointed Minister of Education. |
| 2015 | As Education Minister, Bennett initiated programs to prevent future attacks on the LGBTQ community following a murder at the Jerusalem gay pride parade. |
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