Nira Shpak
Faction represented in the Knesset
2021–2022Yesh Atid
Personal details
Born (1966-07-20) 20 July 1966
Rehovot, Israel

Nira Shpak (Hebrew: נִירָה שְׁפָּק, born 20 July 1966)[1] is an Israeli soldier, civil servant and politician. She was a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid from 2021 to 2022.

Biography

A member of the Kfar Aza kibbutz,[2] Shpak was a career soldier. She was the first woman to reach the rank of brigade commander and commander of an operational sector,[2] and was the first woman to lead the training section of the Israeli Ground Forces.[3] After being discharged with the rank of brigadier general, she worked at the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Home Front Defense.[3]

Entering politics, she ran for head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council in the 2018 local elections.[4] Prior to the 2021 Knesset elections she was placed seventeenth on the Yesh Atid list,[5] and was elected to the Knesset as the party won seventeen seats. She did not contest the 2022 elections, choosing to return to local politics.[6]

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