Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin
Template:Infobox member of the Knesset Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Template:Lang-he-n, 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
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
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
- ^ 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
- Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin on the Knesset website
- Living people
- 1970 births
- Israeli Jews
- People from Tel Aviv
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem 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 women politicians
- Israeli people of Greek-Jewish descent