Nira Shpak ( he, נִירָה שְׁפָּק, born 20 July 1966) is an Israeli soldier, civil servant and politician. She was a member of the Knesset for

Yesh Atid Yesh Atid ( he, יֵשׁ עָתִיד, , There Is a Future) is a liberal political party in Israel. Founded by Yair Lapid in 2012, it seeks to represent what it considers the centre of Israeli society: the secular middle class. It focuses prima ...

from 2021 to 2022.

Biography

A member of the

Kfar Aza Kfar Aza ( he, כְּפַר עַזַּה, ''lit.'' Gaza Village) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located between Netivot and Sderot around five kilometres east of Gaza, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In it ...

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

, Shpak was a career soldier. She was the first woman to reach the rank of brigade commander and commander of an operational sector,Our Team
Forum Dvorah and was the first woman to lead the training section of the

Israeli Ground Forces The Israeli Ground Forces ( he, זרוע היבשה) are the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The commander is the General Officer Commanding with the rank of Major General, the ''Mazi'', subordinate to the Chief of General St ...

.Reform rabbi, Kahanist agitator, firebrand writer: The new Knesset’s 16 rookies
The Times of Israel, 26 March 2021 After being discharged with the rank of brigadier general, she worked at the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Home Front Defense. Entering politics, she ran for head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council in the 2018 local elections. Prior to the 2021 Knesset elections she was placed seventeenth on the Yesh Atid list, and was elected to the Knesset as the party won seventeen seats. In May 2022 she was a recipient of the Knights of the Quality of Government award by the

Movement for Quality Government in Israel The Movement for Quality Government in Israel ( he, התנועה למען איכות השלטון בישראל, ''HaTnu'a Lema'an Ekhut HaShilton BeYisrael'') is an Israeli non-profit organization that claims a membership of about 17,000. Formed ...

. However, she did not contest the November 2022 elections, choosing to return to local politics.Yesh Atid MK Nira Shpak to leave Knesset, run in local elections
The Jerusalem Post, 10 September 2022

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