Idit Silman

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Idit Silman
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Faction represented in the Knesset
2019Union of the Right-Wing Parties
2021–Yamina
Personal details
Born (1980-10-27) 27 October 1980 (age 40)
Rehovot, Israel

Idit Silman (Hebrew: עִידִּית סִילְמָן‎, born 27 October 1980) is an Israeli politician. She is currently a member of the Knesset for Yamina and heads the Arrangements Committee in the Knesset.[1]

Biography[]

Silman was born in Rehovot, and was educated at Ulpana Tzfira and the Wingate Institute. She worked in marketing in the health sector.[2] She is married, and has three children.

An activist with Mafdal in her youth[citation needed], she later joined the Jewish Home,[3] where she was chosen for the female spot on the party list for the April 2019 Knesset elections.[4] When the party joined the Union of the Right-Wing Parties alliance, she was placed fifth on its list, going on to enter the Knesset as the alliance won five seats.[5]

Silman was given the eighth slot on the Yamina list (a joint ticket of the New Right, The Jewish Home, and National Union) for the elections to the 22nd Knesset. When Yamina won only seven seats, however, Silman lost her seat in the Knesset.[citation needed]

Silman left the Jewish Home for the New Right on 15 January 2020[6] and was placed in the seventh slot on the Yamina list the same day when the alliance was re-established for the 2020 Israeli legislative election.[7]

She was placed in the eighth slot of the Yamina list ahead of the 2021 Israeli legislative election.[8] She became an MK after Alon Davidi resigned from the Yamina list.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ Staff writer (14 June 2021). "New government starts process of taking power after 12 years of Netanyahu". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Talking to Idit Silman, fifth spot on the United Right's Knesset list". Israel National News. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Idit Silman joins Jewish Home Knesset list". Israel National News. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Female candidate quits Bayit Yehudi over Otzma merger". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Here's the Full List of Israeli Lawmakers – and Only a Quarter Are Women". Haaretz. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Idit Silman defects from the Jewish Home to the New Right". Arutz Sheva. 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  7. ^ Staff writer (15 January 2020). "Bennett, Peretz, Smotrich agree to joint run without Ben Gvir". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  8. ^ Staff writer (3 February 2021). "Israel Election 2021: All the Official Party Lists So Far". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  9. ^ Gil Hoffman (5 April 2021). "Sderot mayor turns down Knesset". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 5 April 2021.

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