Twenty-six years after he began advising Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer is expected to resign from the government in about three weeks, in mid-November, Israel Hayom has learned.
As first reported by Israel Hayom, Dermer is planning to leave political life in the coming months. According to senior government sources, he made the decision even before the last election but did not specify a timeline. These officials say that after the goal of neutralizing the Iranian nuclear threat was achieved, he began to consider his departure and even spoke about it openly.
Over the years, Dermer served Netanyahu in several key positions: political adviser specializing in polling analysis, economic envoy in Washington when Netanyahu was finance minister, diplomatic adviser in the Prime Minister's Office from 2009 to 2012, Israel's ambassador to the US from 2013 to 2020 under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and most recently, as Strategic Affairs Minister, effectively managing US-Israel relations since 2023.
A close confidant of Netanyahu, Dermer has never run in the Likud primaries. He was appointed to his ministerial role and as de facto liaison to the US as part of Netanyahu's allocation of reserved positions. As minister, he is a member of the cabinet and regularly participates in the inner Diplomatic-Security Cabinet that makes strategic decisions on the continuation of the war.
