Nira Shpak
Nira Shpak | |
|---|---|
 Shpak in 2022 | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2021–2022 | Yesh Atid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 July 1966 Rehovot, Israel |
Nira Shpak (Hebrew: נִירָה שְׁפָּק; born 20 July 1966)[1] is an Israeli soldier, civil servant and politician. She was a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid from 2021 to 2022.
Biography
A member of the Kfar Aza kibbutz,[2] Shpak was a career soldier. She was the first woman to reach the rank of brigade commander and commander of an operational sector,[2] and was the first woman to lead the training section of the Israeli Ground Forces.[3] After being discharged with the rank of brigadier general, she worked at the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Home Front Defense.[3]
Entering politics, she ran for head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council in the 2018 local elections.[4] Prior to the 2021 Knesset elections she was placed seventeenth on the Yesh Atid list,[5] and was elected to the Knesset as the party won seventeen seats. In May 2022 she was a recipient of the Knights of the Quality of Government award by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel.[6] However, she did not contest the November 2022 elections, choosing to return to local politics.[7]
References
- ^ בחירות 2021: אלה חברי הכנסת מטעם יש עתיד בכנסת ה-24 Mako, 17 February 2021
- ^ a b Our Team Forum Dvorah
- ^ a b Reform rabbi, Kahanist agitator, firebrand writer: The new Knesset’s 16 rookies The Times of Israel, 26 March 2021
- ^ Women Influencers in the South – Fourth Meeting – Zoom Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
- ^ יש עתיד בראשות יאיר לפיד Central Elections Committee
- ^ "2021 Knights of the Quality of Government were proclaimed". Movement for Quality Government in Israel. May 2022.
- ^ Yesh Atid MK Nira Shpak to leave Knesset, run in local elections The Jerusalem Post, 10 September 2022
External links
- Nira Shpak on the Knesset website