Leah Fadida Ben Sheetrit ( he, לאה פדידה, born 6 September 1968) is an Israeli politician. She served as a member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

for the

Zionist Union The Zionist Union ( he, הַמַחֲנֶה הַצִיּוֹנִי, translit. ''HaMaḥaneh HaẒiyoni'', lit. ''the Zionist Camp'') was a centre-left political alliance in Israel. It was established in December 2014 by the Israeli Labor Party ...

and the Labor Party between 2017 and 2019.

Biography

Fadida was born in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

; her mother was an immigrant from

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

and her father was an immigrant from

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

. She grew up in the Hativat Carmeli neighbourhood of Haifa.The mother who made a change in Yokneam wants to enter the Knesset
NRG, 14 November 2012 She studied for a BA in social science at the

Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (C ...

before gaining a master's degree in public policy at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

.Leah Fadida: Particulars
Knesset She also studied wilderness management at the

University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fa ...

and worked for the forestry section of the Jewish National Fund in northern Israel. She went on to become director of the JNF's public relations department.Leah Fadida: Public Activities
Knesset In the late 1990s she was elected to

Yokneam Illit Yokneam Illit ( he, יָקְנְעָם עילית), also ''Yoqne'am Illit'' and ''Jokneam Illit'', is a city in northern Israel. It is located in a hilly region of the lower Galilee at the base of the Carmel Mountains, and overlooks the Jezreel V ...

City Council, serving as deputy mayor from 2002 until 2017. A member of the Labor Party, Fadida was placed 32nd on the party's list for the 2013 Knesset elections, but failed to win a seat. Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 27th on the list of the Zionist Union, an alliance of Labor and

Hatnuah Hatnua ( he, הַתְּנוּעָה, lit=''The Movement'') was a liberal political party in Israel formed by former Israeli Foreign Minister and Vice Prime Minister Tzipi Livni to present an alternative to voters frustrated by the stalemate in ...

. Although the alliance won only 24 seats, Fadida entered the Knesset on 6 October 2017 as a replacement for

Erel Margalit Erel Margalit ( he, אראל מרגלית; born 1 January 1961) is an Israeli high-tech and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jerusalem-based venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and the founder ...

,Replacements Among Knesset Members
Knesset who returned to the business world after losing the party leadership election to

Avi Gabbay Avraham "Avi" Gabbay ( he, אַבְרָהָם "אָבִי" גַּבַּאי, born 22 February 1967) is an Israeli businessman and politician. He was CEO of the telecommunications company Bezeq from 2007 to 2013, then entered politics. He served ...

.Labor MK Margalit quits Knesset, in second party resignation in week
Times of Israel, 3 October 2017 She was placed nineteenth on the Labor list for the April 2019 elections, but the party won only six seats. Fadida is married with two children and lives in Yokneam Illit.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fadida, Leah 1968 births Living people Politicians from Haifa Open University of Israel alumni Tel Aviv University alumni Women members of the Knesset Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019) Israeli Labor Party politicians Zionist Union politicians Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent