Nurit Koren (; born 24 February 1960) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She served as a member of the
Knesset
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The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supe ...
for
Likud
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between 2015 and 2019.
Biography
Koren was born in
Jerusalem
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to
Yemenite Jewish
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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 school. In 1971 her family moved to
Kiryat Arba and she later studied at the
Givat Washington religious
youth village
A youth village () 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 pioneers in this sphere, known as youth ...
. Aged 17 she married Eli Koren and relocated with him to
Herzliya
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, where she studied at the Rishonim High School until she became pregnant. Later, aged 38, she began studying at the
Open University of Israel
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Open University ...
and received a
BA in social sciences and humanities, graduating with honors, then studied law, receiving a BA in law from
Ono Academic College and an
MA in law from
Bar-Ilan University
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.
Koren lives in Herzliya and has four children.
Political career
Koren worked as the office manager for
Gilad Erdan
Gilad Menashe Erdan ( ; born 30 September 1970) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 2020 through 2024.
Erdan previously served as Ambassador of Israel to the United ...
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
Politicians from Jerusalem
Jewish Israeli politicians
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