Zehut candidate for the Knesset
Arkady Avraham Mutter
Arkady Avraham Mutter, 55, is married, a father of five and a grandfather of two. He holds a bachelor's degree in management accounting and information systems and works as an IT project manager. He is a public activist, a settlement activist and a well-known political commentator among Russian-speaking Israelis.
About Arkady Avraham Mutter
Arkady Avraham Mutter, 55, is married, a father of five and a grandfather of two. He holds a bachelor's degree in management accounting and information systems. He works as an IT project manager and is a public activist, a settlement activist and a well-known political commentator among Russian-speaking Israelis.
Arkady was born and raised in Vitebsk, Belarus, then part of the Soviet Union. There he began his public and Zionist activity in an organization promoting Aliyah and Jewish culture. He immigrated to Israel in 1990 and made his home in the community of Ofra in the Binyamin region. Over the years, he has combined a career in technology with public, media and political work to strengthen the Jewish identity of the State of Israel, individual liberty and a free economy. His volunteer public roles have included membership in Ofra's secretariat and residents' council and service as the community's representative on the local council.
In 2005, during the Disengagement, Arkady asked to postpone the reserve service for which he had been called because he opposed participating in actions intended to assist in the evacuation of communities. He told his commanders that he was prepared to take responsibility for his decision, and was consequently sentenced to 21 days in military prison.
Arkady is one of the founders of the Zehut party and one of its veteran activists. He ran in the party's primaries, placed seventh in the open primaries of 2019 and appeared on Zehut's Knesset lists. Today he is a party candidate and leads its activity among Russian-speaking Israelis.
Alongside his political work, Arkady regularly appears as a commentator and panelist on Russian-language media channels. He is interviewed on security, public policy, economics, settlement, education, Jewish identity and Israel's relations with former Soviet states.
Arkady advances a national-liberal outlook that seeks to return the state to its citizens: strengthening Jewish identity and Israeli sovereignty, reducing bureaucracy, promoting a free economy and freedom of choice in education, reforming the judicial system, and achieving a clear victory over Israel's enemies.