Ayelet Shaked | |
|---|---|
אַיֶּילֶת שָׁקֵד | |
.JPG) Shaked in 2021 | |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 2015–2019 | Minister of Justice |
| 2021–2022 | Minister of Interior |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 2013–2018 | The Jewish Home |
| 2018–2019 | New Right |
| 2019 | Yamina |
| 2019–2020 | New Right |
| 2020–2021 | Yamina |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ayelet Ben-Shaul 7 May 1976 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Spouse | Ofir Shaked (c. 2004) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University (BSc) |
| Occupation |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  State of Israel |
| Branch/service | Israel Defense Forces |
| Years of service | 1994–1996 |
| Unit | Golani Brigade |
Ayelet Shaked[a] (Hebrew: אַיֶּילֶת שָׁקֵד [aˈjelet ʃaˈked]; born 7 May 1976) is an Israeli former politician, activist, and software engineer. She served as Minister of Interior from 2021 to 2022 and as Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2019. Between 2013 and 2021, she was a representative in the Knesset as a member of The Jewish Home from 2013 to 2018, and then as a founding member of the New Right from 2018 to 2019 and again from 2019 to 2020. Shaked also served as the leader of the defunct right-wing electoral alliance Yamina.[1][2] Despite her tenure in The Jewish Home, a religious political party, she has identified as a secularist.
Before entering politics, Shaked began her career in the Israeli high-tech industry, working as an engineer at Texas Instruments shortly after graduating from Tel Aviv University.[3][4] In 2010, she co-founded the "My Israel" extra-parliamentary movement alongside Naftali Bennett and led it until May 2012. Later, in 2019, Shaked, Bennett, and Shuli Mualem founded the New Right, which did not pass the electoral threshold in the April 2019 legislative election. Afterwards, Shaked planned to join Likud, but Miri Regev did not allow her to do so.[5] When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government in the run-up to the September 2019 legislative election, Shaked ended up succeeding Bennett as leader of the New Right.[6]
Shaked was considered to be one of the country's most active and influential legislators.[7] She has initiated and drafted various laws, including the 2016 NGO law, the comprehensive national anti-terrorism law, a version of the proposal for Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, and a law limiting the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court.
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- ^ Sharon, Jeremy (30 July 2019). "New Right and URP seal political union deal". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Staff writer (12 August 2019). "United Right to run under name 'Yemina'". Arutz Sheva. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Talks with a Tel Aviv Settler Archived 10 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine Haaretz, 22.06.2012
- ^ Meet the most surprising candidate of "Jewish Home" Archived 26 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine NRG 11/26/2012
- ^ Bachner, Michael. "Squabbling among right-wing parties persists after Netanyahu-Smotrich scrap". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 13 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Zaken, Dan (21 July 2019). "Ayelet Shaked to head New Right list". Globes. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ Harkov, Lahav (1 August 2013). "Parliamentary Affairs: Not-so-new politics". Retrieved 29 August 2024.