Sharon Roffe Ofir (born 16 December 1970) is an Israeli journalist 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 (with ...

for

Yisrael Beiteinu Yisrael Beiteinu ( he, יִשְׂרָאֵל בֵּיתֵנוּ, russian: Наш Дом Израиль, lit. ''Israel Our Home'') is a secularist, nationalist right-wing political party in Israel. The party's base was originally secular Russia ...

in 2022, a position she previously held from 2021 to 2022. Roffe Ofir was also a deputy mayor of

Kiryat Tiv'on Kiryat Tiv'on ( he, קִרְיַת טִבְעוֹן, also Qiryat Tiv'on) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel, in the hills between the Zvulun (Zebulon) and Jezreel valleys. Kiryat Tiv'on is situated southeast of Haifa, on the main road t ...

Biography

Roffe Ofir was born in

to Yosef, a descendant of the

Old Yishuv The Old Yishuv ( he, היישוב הישן, ''haYishuv haYashan'') were the Jewish communities of the southern Syrian provinces in the Ottoman period, up to the onset of Zionist aliyah and the consolidation of the New Yishuv by the end of World ...

and Tamar, of

Iranian Jewish Persian Jews or Iranian Jews ( fa, یهودیان ایرانی, ''yahudiān-e-Irāni''; he, יהודים פרסים ''Yəhūdīm Parsīm'') are the descendants of Jews who were historically associated with the Persian Empire, whose successor s ...

descent. She attended the local Ort High School and completed her mandatory military service in the Southern Command Operations Room. Roffe Ofir completed a bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology with an extension in law at the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming Is ...

, later completing a master's degree in communications with a specialization in journalism at the same university. In 2000 she began working as a lecturer in media and a reporter for the ''

Yedioth Ahronoth ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' ( he, יְדִיעוֹת אַחֲרוֹנוֹת, ; lit. ''Latest News'') is a national daily newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel. Founded in 1939 in British Mandatory Palestine, ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' is the largest paid n ...

'' group, until 2010 on the

Ynet Ynet (stylized as ynet) is one of the major Israeli news and general-content websites, and is the online outlet for the '' Yedioth Ahronot'' newspaper. However, most of Ynet's content is original work, published exclusively on the website and wri ...

website, and from then until 2021 for its women's magazine. For her activities in Ynet, she won the "Journalist of the Decade" award from the Haifa and North Journalists' Association. Following the coverage of the Murder of Tair Rada from 2006 onwards, she published the book "Tair: Ilana Rada's Journey" in 2018. Following the 2018 municipal elections, Roffe Ofir was appointed deputy mayor of

after unsuccessfully running for mayor. In the 2020 Knesset elections, she was placed second on the "Women's Voice" list, which failed to cross the electoral threshold. In the March 2021 Knesset elections she was placed eleventh on the Yisrael Beiteinu list and headed the party's women's platform. Although the party won only seven seats and she initially missed out, Roffe Ofir entered the Knesset on 5 August 2021 as a replacement for

Eli Avidar Eli Avidar (; born 3 December 1964) is a former Israeli politician who founded the Israel Free political party in 2022. Prior to this, he was a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office from ...

, who gave up his seat after being appointed to the cabinet under the Norwegian Law. When Avidar resigned from his ministerial role in February 2022 he returned to the Knesset and replaced Roffe Ofir. Avidar resigned in August 2022, with Ofir taking his place as an MK.

Personal life

Roffe Ofir is married to Ran Ofir, a police officer. The couple live in Kiryat Tivon and have three children.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roffe Ofir, Sharon 1970 births People from Kiryat Tiv'on Living people Israeli women journalists University of Haifa alumni Yisrael Beiteinu politicians Members of the 24th Knesset (2021–2022) Women members of the Knesset 21st-century Israeli women politicians