Nurit Koren ( he, נורית קורן, born 24 February 1960) is an Israeli lawyer and 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 (wit ...
for
Likud
Likud ( he, הַלִּיכּוּד, HaLikud, The Consolidation), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major centre-right to right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel S ...
between 2015 and 2019.
Biography
Nurit Koren was born in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
to
Yemenite Jewish
Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the ...
immigrants, and has four brothers. Her father was a laborer, truck driver, and taxi driver. Her family was traditional, and Koren attended a
Bais Yaakov
Bais Yaakov ( he, בית יעקב also Beis Yaakov, Beit Yaakov, Beth Jacob or Beys Yankev; lit., House fJacob) is a genericized name for full-time Haredi Jewish elementary and secondary schools for Jewish girls throughout the world.
Bais Yaa ...
school. In 1971, her family moved to
Kiryat Arba
:''This article is mainly about the modern Israeli settlement, not the biblical town''
Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba ( he, קִרְיַת־אַרְבַּע, , Town of the Four) is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the south ...
, and she later studied at the
Givat Washington religious
youth village
A youth village ( he, כפר נוער, ''Kfar No'ar'') is a boarding school model first developed in Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. Henrietta Szold and Recha Freier were the pionee ...
. At age 17, she married Eli Koren, and relocated with him to
Herzliya
Herzliya ( ; he, הֶרְצְלִיָּה ; ar, هرتسليا, Hirtsiliyā) is an affluent city in the central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In i ...
, where she studied at the Rishonim High School until she became pregnant. Later, at age 38, she began studying 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 ...
, and received a
BA in Social Sciences and Humanities, graduating with honors, then studied law, receiving a BA in Law from
Ono Academic College
Ono Academic College (''in Hebrew'': הקריה האקדמית אונו) is a private college located in Kiryat Ono, Israel. With over 14,000 students, the college is among Israel's fastest growing institutions of higher education. OAC"s stated ...
and an
MA in Law from
Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academi ...
.
Koren lives in Herzliya, and has four children.
Political career
Koren worked as the office manager for
Gilad Erdan
Gilad Menashe Erdan ( he, גִּלְעָד מְנַשֶּׁה אֶרְדָן, ; born 30 September 1970) is an Israeli politician and diplomat serving as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations since 2020.
Erdan previously serv ...
while he was
Minister of Environmental Protection from 2010 to 2012.
Prior to the
2015 Knesset elections she was placed twenty-eighth on the Likud list, and was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats.
Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset
Central Elections Committee She lost her seat in the April 2019 elections after being placed forty-third on the party's list, despite Likud gaining five seats.
See also
* Israeli women
References
External links
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Living people
1960 births
People from Jerusalem
Israeli Jews
Israeli lawyers
Likud politicians
Women members of the Knesset
Open University of Israel alumni
Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019)
21st-century Israeli women politicians
Israeli people of Yemeni-Jewish descent
Ono Academic College alumni