Stern grew up in
Safed. During his national service in the
Israel Defence Forces, he served in the 50th battalion of the
Nahal Brigade. He subsequently earned a bachelor's degree in physics from
Bar-Ilan University. One of the founders of the
West Bank settlement movement, he moved to the settlement of
Shilo when it was founded in 1978. He also served as a director of the
Amana settlement movement. but the party won only 35 seats. He was placed forty-first for the
September 2019 elections, in which Likud won 32 seats. Although he missed out again in the
March 2020 elections in which he was placed forty-first and Likud won 36 seats, he entered the Knesset in December 2020 as a replacement for
Michal Shir, who had resigned to join
Gideon Sa'ar's
New Hope party. Placed thirty-eighth on the Likud list for the
March 2021 elections, he lost his seat as Likud was reduced to 30 seats. ==References==