The Likud party welcomed Oren Dobronsky as he joins as the party’s first AI czar, the movement announced. Dubronsky is a successful businessman, one of Israel’s high-tech pioneers, and a right-wing figure. He’s joining Likud’s slate and after the elections will lead artificial intelligence policy across the economy, education, healthcare, and all sectors of the state.
Dobronsky told Netanyahu: “You know, when you offered me a month ago, you said to me, ‘Oren, how about you join?’ At first, I felt like a draft order. I’m not a person who came from politics. I’ll tell you the truth, I don’t have any political aspirations either. But when you told me, ‘You can take something like this,’ that’s it, as far as I’m concerned, I’m there. I’m coming to do what’s necessary… Thank you very much, thank you.”
Businessman Dobronsky founded his first startup in 1996: the first online bulletin board in Israel. Since then, he has gone on to found several more companies and startups, some of which he later sold for tens of millions of dollars. In 2020, he founded the charity Clear Giving, which provided food chain vouchers to families in need. By November 2025, the charity had donated approximately NIS 30 million to families in need.