Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin
Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2015–2019 | Zionist Union |
| 2019 | Labor Party |
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| Born | 19 June 1970 Tel Aviv, Israel |
Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Hebrew: אַיֶילֶת נַחְמִיָּאס־וֶרְבִּין, born 19 June 1970) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union and the Labor Party between 2015 and 2019.
Biography
[edit]Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin was born and raised in Tel Aviv. She studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lives in Jaffa and is married with three children. Her father-in-law is a former mayor of Ramat HaSharon.
Legal and political career
[edit]In 1991 she joined the Labor Party, and later became assistant legal advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[1] After Rabin was assassinated in 1995 she became chair of Tavlit, an irrigation company.[2]
She placed 22nd on the Zionist Union list (an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah) for the 2015 Knesset elections,[3] and was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 24 seats.[4] She did not contest the April 2019 elections and lost her seat.
References
[edit]- ^ Labor candidate hopes to carry on Rabin legacy The Jerusalem Post, 9 January 2015
- ^ Meet the new MK: Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin The Jerusalem Post
- ^ Zionist Union list Central Elections Committee
- ^ Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
External links
[edit]- Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin on the Knesset website
- Living people
- 1970 births
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Politicians from Tel Aviv
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law alumni
- Israeli lawyers
- Israeli Labor Party politicians
- Zionist Union politicians
- Women members of the Knesset
- Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019)
- Israeli women lawyers
- 21st-century Israeli women politicians
- Israeli people of Greek-Jewish descent