Michal Rozin (, born 25 June 1969) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the
Knesset
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for
Meretz
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from 2021 until 2022 and also served between 2013 and 2019.
Political career
Rozin was elected to the Knesset in
2013
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on the Meretz list. During her first term in the Knesset she chaired the Committee on
Foreign Workers
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, and headed three lobbies; the Lobby for Equality in Employment, the Lobby for Female Knesset Members, and the Lobby for Equality and Pluralism.
She is a member of the
Women of the Wall
Women of the Wall (Hebrew language, Hebrew: נשות הכותל, ''Neshot HaKotel'') is a multi-denominational Jews, Jewish feminist organization based in Israel whose goal is to secure the rights of women to pray at the Western Wall, also calle ...
, and says she subscribes to a worldview combining religious freedom with feminism. On 4 March 2014, she and
Amram Mitzna
Amram Mitzna ( he, עמרם מצנע, born 20 February 1945) is an Israeli politician and former general in the IDF. He is a former mayor of Haifa (1993–2003) and Yeruham (2005–2010) and led the Labor Party from 2002 to 2003. In 2012 he joine ...
were awarded the
Israel Democracy Institute
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's Outstanding Parliamentarian Award of 2013. The award was given in recognition for her work promoting the rights of women, children, and disadvantaged groups.
In January 2015 Rozin conducted mock gay weddings outside the headquarters of
the Jewish Home
The Jewish Home ( he, הַבַּיִת הַיְהוּדִי, HaBayit HaYehudi) is an Orthodox Jewish and religious Zionist political party in Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the ...
party to protest its opposition to same-sex marriage.
She was also ranked third on
Aguda's ranking of LGBT rights advocates in the Knesset, behind only fellow Meretz MKs
Nitzan Horowitz
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and
Tamar Zandberg
Tamar Zandberg (, born 29 April 1976) is an Israeli politician who served as Ministry of Environmental Protection (Israel), Minister of Environmental Protection from 2021 to 2022. Zandberg also served as a member of the Knesset for Meretz from 20 ...
.
She was re-elected in the
2015 Knesset elections after being placed fourth on the party's list,
Meretz list
Central Elections Committee and in the April 2019 elections in third place.
References
External links
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Michal Rozin
on the Meretz website
1969 births
Living people
21st-century Israeli women politicians
Bar-Ilan University alumni
Israeli feminists
Israeli Jews
Israeli women activists
Israeli women's rights activists
Jewish feminists
Jewish human rights activists
Jewish Israeli politicians
Israeli LGBT rights activists
Members of the 19th Knesset (2013–2015)
Members of the 20th Knesset (2015–2019)
Members of the 21st Knesset (2019)
Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022)
Meretz politicians
People from Petah Tikva
People from Ramat Gan
Tel Aviv University alumni
Women members of the Knesset
Jewish women activists
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