Keti Shitrit

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Keti Shitrit
MK Keti Shitrit.jpg
Faction represented in the Knesset
2019–Likud
Personal details
Born
Katrin Peretz

(1960-01-22) 22 January 1960 (age 61)
Casablanca, Morocco

Katrin "Keti" Shitrit-Peretz (Hebrew: קְטָרִין שִׁטְרִית-פֶּרֶץ, born (1960-01-22)22 January 1960) is an Israeli politician. She currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud.

Biography[]

Katrin Peretz was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to a Sephardic Jewish family. Her family immigrated to Israel in 1962 when she was an eighteen months old baby, initially living in a ma'abara in Lod. She joined the Betar youth movement, and studied for a BA in political science and an MA in public administration at Bar-Ilan University, also gaining a teacher training certificate at Beit Berl Academic College. She worked in schools in Beit Shemesh and Dimona and established a school for modern dance in Kfar Saba. She also headed the office of Beit Shemesh mayor Daniel Vaknin between 1993 and 2008, before serving as the city's Financial Director from 2008 until 2010, during which she also lectured at Bar-Ilan University and the College of Management Academic Studies.[1]

A long-time Likud activist, Shitrit headed the offices of Likud MKs Gideon Sa'ar and Yisrael Katz, before becoming a strategist for Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat.[2] She was placed thirty-first on the Likud list for the 2009 Knesset elections,[3] but failed to win a seat as Likud won 27 seats. She was thirty-eighth on the joint Likud Yisrael Beiteinu list for the 2013 elections,[4] but the alliance won only 31 seats. The following year she was forced to give up her place on the list (which would have allowed her to enter the Knesset as a replacement for a resigning MK) as she was working for Katz in the Ministry of Transportation.[5] Between 2016 and 2019 she worked as an advisor to Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat.[1] Prior to the April 2019 elections she was given the thirtieth place on the Likud list,[6] and was elected to the Knesset as the party won 35 seats. She was subsequently re-elected in the early elections in September the same year.[7]

She is married to Asher Shitrit, they have three children, and reside in Beit Shemesh. Her son Moshe is deputy mayor of the city.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Kathrin Shitrit: Public Activities Knesset
  2. ^ How Political Tycoons in Israel Evade Campaign-spending Limits Haaretz, 25 August 2016
  3. ^ 2009 Likud list Israel Democracy Institute
  4. ^ 2013 Likud Beiteinu list Israel Democracy Institute
  5. ^ נזכרה באיחור: ראש מטה שר התחבורה התפטרה מרשימת מועמדי הליכוד לכנסת בשל ניגוד עניינים Yedioth Ahronoth, 23 September 2014
  6. ^ Likud list CEC
  7. ^ "Likud wins additional Knesset seat". Arutz Sheva. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

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