Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin

Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Hebrew: אַיֶילֶת נַחְמִיָּאס־וֶרְבִּין‎, born 19 June 1970) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union and the Labor Party between 2015 and 2019.

Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin
Faction represented in the Knesset
2015–2019Zionist Union
2019Labor Party
Personal details
Born (1970-06-19) 19 June 1970
Tel Aviv, Israel

Biography

Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin was born and raised in Tel Aviv. She studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lives in Jaffa and is married with three children. Her father-in-law is a former mayor of Ramat HaSharon.

In 1991 she joined the Labor Party, and later became assistant legal advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[1] After Rabin was assassinated in 1995 she became chair of Tavlit, an irrigation company.[2]

She placed 22nd on the Zionist Union list (an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah) for the 2015 Knesset elections,[3] and was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 24 seats.[4] She did not contest the April 2019 elections and lost her seat.

References
  1. Labor candidate hopes to carry on Rabin legacy The Jerusalem Post, 9 January 2015
  2. Meet the new MK: Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin The Jerusalem Post
  3. Zionist Union list Central Elections Committee
  4. Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
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