Eti Atiya

Eti Atiya
Faction represented in the Knesset
2019–	Likud
Personal details
Born	(1960-02-12) 12 February 1960 (age 61) Lod, Israel

Hava Eti Atiya (Hebrew: אֶתִּי חַוָּה עַטִיָיה, born 12 February 1960) is an Israeli politician. She is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud.

Biography[]

Atiya was born in Lod in 1960 into a family that had immigrated from Djerba in Tunisia.^[1] She attended Bar-Ilan University, where she earned a BA in social science and an MA in internal auditing. She also studied for an LLB at Ono Academic College.^[1] During the late 1980s she began working for the National Union of Israel Aerospace Industries Employees. In 1993 she was appointed chief of staff to the union's secretary,^[1] Haim Katz. When Katz was appointed Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services in 2015, she left the union to become his chief of staff.^[1][2]

In the build-up to the April 2019 elections, Atiya was placed twenty-first on the Likud list,^[3] the slot reserved for Gush Dan.^[2] She was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 36 seats. She was subsequently re-elected in September 2019 and March 2020.

References[]

External links[]

• Eti Atiya on the Knesset website