Reuven Kopitchinski · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ze'ev Elkin has held an unusually varied run of Israeli cabinet portfolios — housing, immigrant absorption, environmental protection, higher education, water resources, Jerusalem affairs — while moving between Kadima, Likud and New Hope over a Knesset career spanning multiple parties. That mobility across both portfolios and party lines has made him one of Israeli politics' more durable operators.