Tali Ploskov ( he, טלי פלוסקוב, born 30 July 1962) is an Israeli politician who 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

Likud Likud ( he, הַלִּיכּוּד, HaLikud, The Consolidation), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement, is a major centre-right to right-wing political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin and Ariel Sha ...

and

Kulanu Kulanu ( he, כולנו, lit. ''All of Us'') was a centrist political party in Israel founded by Moshe Kahlon that focused on economic and cost-of-living issues. History The party was established on 27 November 2014 following months of spec ...

in three spells between 2015 and 2022.

Early life and education

Ploskov was born in

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in the

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(today in

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). She worked in the school system in the city until

immigrating Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

to Israel in 1991. Ploskov obtained a BA in psychology and is studying economics.

Career

After arriving in Israel she worked as a nurse in a nursing home. She later became a maid at a hotel on the Dead Sea, before starting to work at a bank. A member of

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 ...

, she was elected to Arad City Council, was deputy mayor in 2007, and in 2010 won the city's mayoral election, becoming the first female Soviet immigrant to hold a mayoralty. She was re-elected in 2014 with 55% of the vote. Prior to the

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, Ploskov joined the new

party, and was placed sixth on its list. She was elected to the Knesset as the party won ten seats. During her first term in the Knesset she served as Deputy

Speaker of the Knesset The Speaker of the Knesset ( he, יוֹשֵׁב רֹאשׁ הכנסת, Yoshev Rosh HaKnesset, Chairman of the Knesset) is the presiding officer of the Knesset, the unicameral legislature of Israel. The Speaker also acts as President of Israel whe ...

. She was fifth on the party's list for the April 2019 elections, but lost her seat as the party was reduced to four seats. She subsequently joined

and was elected back to the Knesset in the 2020 elections. Placed thirty-first on the Likud list for the March 2021 elections, she lost her seat as Likud was reduced to 30 seats. However, she re-entered the Knesset in August 2022 after the resignation of Gadi Yevarkan. Ploskov was placed seventy-first on the Likud list for the 2022 elections and lost her seat.

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