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Nira Shpak

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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)[1] is an Israeli soldier, civil servant and politician. She was a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid from 2021 to 2022.

Biography

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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. In May 2022 she was a recipient of the Knights of the Quality of Government award by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel.[6] However, she did not contest the November 2022 elections, choosing to return to local politics.[7]

References

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  1. ^ בחירות 2021: אלה חברי הכנסת מטעם יש עתיד בכנסת ה-24 Mako, 17 February 2021
  2. ^ a b Our Team Forum Dvorah
  3. ^ a b 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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