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Member of Knesset
Nira Shpak
Shpak in 2022
Faction represented in the Knesset
2021–2022Yesh Atid
Personal details
Born (1966-07-20) 20 July 1966 (age 58)
Rehovot, Israel

Nira Shpak (Hebrew: נִירָה שְׁפָּק, born 20 July 1966) is an Israeli soldier, civil servant and politician. She was a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid from 2021 to 2022.

Biography

A member of the Kfar Aza kibbutz, Shpak was a career soldier. She was the first woman to reach the rank of brigade commander and commander of an operational sector, and was the first woman to lead the training section of the Israeli Ground Forces. After being discharged with the rank of brigadier general, she worked at the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Home Front Defense.

Entering politics, she ran for head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council in the 2018 local elections. Prior to the 2021 Knesset elections she was placed seventeenth on the Yesh Atid list, and was elected to the Knesset as the party won seventeen seats. In May 2022 she was a recipient of the Knights of the Quality of Government award by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel. However, she did not contest the November 2022 elections, choosing to return to local politics.

References

  1. בחירות 2021: אלה חברי הכנסת מטעם יש עתיד בכנסת ה-24 Mako, 17 February 2021
  2. ^ Our Team Forum Dvorah
  3. ^ Reform rabbi, Kahanist agitator, firebrand writer: The new Knesset’s 16 rookies The Times of Israel, 26 March 2021
  4. Women Influencers in the South – Fourth Meeting – Zoom Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
  5. יש עתיד בראשות יאיר לפיד Central Elections Committee
  6. "2021 Knights of the Quality of Government were proclaimed". Movement for Quality Government in Israel. May 2022.
  7. Yesh Atid MK Nira Shpak to leave Knesset, run in local elections The Jerusalem Post, 10 September 2022

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