Naor Shiri

A 2022 profile reported that Shiri was 37 at the time, married, the father of a daughter, and living in Hod HaSharon.[2] He attended Mosinzon High School, where he played on the volleyball team, before enlisting in the Israeli Navy.[2]

Shiri has described his first political act as an eleventh-grade petition against canceling the annual school trip following events of the Second Intifada. He recalled telling the mayor at the time, "we must not change our routine and surrender to terror."[7] He joined Yesh Atid in its early years, established the party's student chapter at Ben-Gurion University, and subsequently worked as an adviser to Knesset member Boaz Toporovsky.[2]

Shiri served as deputy mayor of Hod HaSharon beginning in 2018, holding the municipal security and parking-authority portfolios.[2] In a 2022 interview as a newly elected lawmaker, he named stronger municipal policing among his first national priorities and explicitly tied the issue to his experience as deputy mayor.[7]

Shiri entered the 25th Knesset as candidate number 24 on the Yesh Atid list headed by Yair Lapid.[1] Upon election, he named strengthening municipal policing — an area he knew from his time as deputy mayor — as a priority, along with strengthening the Knesset's oversight role and advancing early-childhood issues.[7] By July 2024, he chaired the Knesset caucus for early childhood. At a caucus launch that month, he said it had convened twice during the preceding month and pledged to keep early-childhood education on the Knesset's agenda.[6]

In April 2023, Shiri wrote to Interior and Environmental Protection Committee chair Yaakov Asher requesting an urgent meeting about alleged criminal exploitation of the Interior Ministry's appointment system. His letter stated that during Passover, foreign actors had taken over the system and were using Telegram to sell appointments for $500, with users able to reserve thousands of slots and thereby deny ordinary citizens access. He asked that Interior Ministry, Population Authority, and police officials be summoned to examine the matter.[8]

During a Finance Committee meeting on July 8, 2024, Shiri challenged committee chair Moshe Gafni over the failure to fortify schools in the northern town of Alma. When Gafni said his "power is weak," Shiri replied, "If you are weak, this house can be dissolved." Gafni responded, "That is where we are headed," and later characterized his remark as a joke.[9]

By September 2026, Shiri had ranked sixth on Yesh Atid's internal slate for the next Knesset, having gained recognition alongside fellow lawmaker Vladimir Beliak for parliamentary work on coalition funding and government spending.[5]

In a December 2025 interview, Shiri described advancing legislation to restrict social-media use by children under 14 and expressed support for establishing an authority for online safety and access. He argued that online content was not adapted for children and could contribute to depression, addiction symptoms, anxiety, and in some cases suicidal thoughts, and said he had observed effects on children's attention spans.[10]

Shiri initiated a package of proposals aimed at rehabilitating Kiryat Shmona, the northern town near Lebanon: designating it a VAT-exempt free-trade zone, offering university study grants in exchange for residency, and providing IDF soldiers and reservists with discounts on apartment purchases. He described Kiryat Shmona as "a national symbol" and argued that strengthening it was a national and Galilee-wide interest regardless of its voters' political preferences. He also said he supported coalition-initiated legislation extending tax benefits to Ashkelon when he judged it to be in the national interest.[10]

On cost-of-living concerns, Shiri called for increasing competition and breaking up dominant monopolies, citing the car industry as an example he said was controlled by six or seven families. On housing, he advocated streamlining bureaucracy, land rezoning, and including rental apartments for young couples in development projects, arguing the state might accept lower short-term revenue to reduce housing costs. He used the gap between what farmers receive and what consumers pay for avocados to illustrate how intermediaries drive up prices.[10]

Shiri expressed views on security policy in the same interview. He argued that military action against Iran should be accompanied by political steps intended to produce lasting security, and said Israel should not rely on UNIFIL to disarm Hezbollah but should work directly with forces on the ground. On Gaza, he said Israel should define its own long-term goals, opposed armament in Gaza, and argued that security there should remain in Israeli hands. He stated that the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack had fundamentally changed views within his faction regarding a two-state solution.[10]

In an August 2026 interview, Shiri said he had been in Yesh Atid for 15 years and described Yair Lapid as his preferred candidate to lead his political camp. He argued that building a durable party requires more than a press conference — pointing to the need for branches, districts, a convention, primaries, and sustained organizational effort.[11]

On September 6, 2026, Shiri was placed 14th on the announced "Together" (B'Yachad) slate for the 26th Knesset, a joint list headed by Naftali Bennett with Lapid second, combining candidates from both sides.[12] The Center for Israel Education and the Jewish Virtual Library both confirm his position at number 14 on that list.[3][4] B'Yachad was formed in April 2026 by Bennett and Lapid.[3]

Shiri's public profile has combined local-government experience, parliamentary oversight and social-policy advocacy. By 2026, his battles over coalition funding and government spending had brought him prominence alongside fellow Yesh Atid lawmaker Vladimir Beliak.[5] Early-childhood policy remained a recurring theme, from his stated agenda as a new MK to his chairmanship of the Knesset caucus.[6][7] His later platform broadened to child online safety, rehabilitation plans for Kiryat Shmona, cost-of-living and housing proposals, and security policy.[10]

Following a Jerusalem riot on December 18, 2025, in which ultra-Orthodox protesters threw stones at a bus carrying IDF soldiers, Shiri posted on social media that those involved should "end the day with a bullet in the knee." He later deleted the post and retracted the statement, saying, "I deleted my previous post because our country is on the edge, and any interpretations of hatred toward the ultra-Orthodox were not the purpose of the tweet." He added that had a soldier been injured by a stone, the debate over the protest's limits would have looked different. No soldiers were reported injured in the incident.[13]

In July 2023, during the period of protests against the proposed judicial overhaul and legislation to limit the reasonableness standard, Shiri invited protesters into the Knesset. He said he had not known their intentions and described what he witnessed as "democracy at the entrance to the plenum," noting they had remained outside the plenum and had not disrupted the legislative process. He also argued that the justice minister could have advanced a government bill had there been a genuine effort at dialogue, and called suggestions of such an effort "a mockery." These characterizations represent his political account of the incident.[14]