Nira Shpak
Nira Shpak | |
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| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2021– | 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 is currently a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid.
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.
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
External links[]
- Nira Shpak on the Knesset website
- 1966 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Israeli military personnel
- 21st-century Israeli civil servants
- 21st-century Israeli military personnel
- 21st-century Israeli women politicians
- Bar-Ilan University alumni
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni
- Israeli generals
- Israeli Jews
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Jewish military personnel
- Kibbutzniks
- Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–present)
- People from Rehovot
- Women members of the Knesset
- Yesh Atid politicians