Idit Silman
Idit Silman | |
|---|---|
 Silman in 2019 | |
| Leader of the Coalition | |
| Assumed office June 13th, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Miki Zohar |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2019 | Union of the Right-Wing Parties |
| 2021– | Yamina |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 October 1980 Rehovot, Israel |
Idit Silman (Template:Lang-he, born 27 October 1980) is an Israeli politician. She was the leader of the coalition and a member of the Knesset for Yamina,[1] before abruptly resigning on 6 April 2022.[2]
Biography
Silman was born in Rehovot, and was educated at Ulpana Tzfira and the Wingate Institute. She worked in marketing in the health sector.[3] She is married, and has three children.
An activist with Mafdal in her youth[4], she later joined the Jewish Home,[5] where she was chosen for the female spot on the party list for the April 2019 Knesset elections.[6] When the party joined the Union of the Right-Wing Parties alliance, she was placed fifth on its list, going on to enter the Knesset as the alliance won five seats.[7]
Silman was given the eighth slot on the Yamina list (a joint ticket of the New Right, The Jewish Home, and National Union) for the elections to the 22nd Knesset. When Yamina won only seven seats, however, Silman lost her seat in the Knesset.[citation needed]
Silman left the Jewish Home for the New Right on 15 January 2020[8] and was placed in the seventh slot on the Yamina list the same day when the alliance was re-established for the 2020 Israeli legislative election.[9]
She was placed in the eighth slot of the Yamina list ahead of the 2021 Israeli legislative election.[10] She became an MK after Alon Davidi resigned from the Yamina list.[11]
On 6 April 2022, Silman defected from Yamina to the opposition Likud party, causing the governing coalition of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to lose its majority in the Knesset, and raising the possibility of new elections in Israel for the fifth time in four years.[2] Prime Minister Bennett claimed that Silman had been "persecuted for months" by supporters of Likud party leader and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu "at the most horrific level" until she "broke" and left the coalition.[12] Silman herself, however, cited the fact that the leftist Meretz party were insisting on allowing leavened bread (chametz) into hospitals over Passover, which is forbidden under Jewish law. She also claimed no one respected her in the coalition.[13]
References
- ^ "New government starts process of taking power after 12 years of Netanyahu". The Times of Israel. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ a b Ravid, Barak (6 April 2022). "Israeli government on brink of collapse after key lawmaker quits coalition". Axios. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ Sylvetsky, Rochel. "Talking to Idit Silman, fifth spot on the United Right's Knesset list". Israel National News. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ "Coalition chair Idit Silman bolts from coalition". Israel National News. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Idit Silman joins Jewish Home Knesset list". Israel National News. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ Harkov, Lahav (22 February 2019). "Female candidate quits Bayit Yehudi over Otzma merger". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ "Here's the Full List of Israeli Lawmakers – and Only a Quarter Are Women". Haaretz. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ "Idit Silman defects from the Jewish Home to the New Right". Arutz Sheva. 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ "Bennett, Peretz, Smotrich agree to joint run without Ben Gvir". Arutz Sheva. 15 January 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ "Israel Election 2021: All the Official Party Lists So Far". Haaretz. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ Hoffman, Gil (5 April 2021). "Sderot mayor turns down Knesset". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ Silkoff, Shira; Joffre, Tzvi (6 April 2022). "Bennett: Bibi activists threatened Silman before she left coalition". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Silman: What bothered me is a minister said to abide by High Court". The Jerusalem Post. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
External links
- Idit Silman on the Knesset website
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