Israeli ex-politician, activist, and engineer (born 1976)
Ayelet Shaked
אַיֶּילֶת שָׁקֵד
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
(1976-05-07) 7 May 1976 (age 48) Tel Aviv, Israel
Spouse
Ofir Shaked (c. 2004)
Children
2
Alma mater
Tel Aviv University (BSc)
Occupation
Politician (formerly)
activist
software engineer
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[aˈjeletʃaˈked]; 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 is 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.
^Parliamentary Affairs: Not-so-new politics, By Lahav Harkov, 08/01/2013
AyeletShaked (Hebrew: אַיֶּילֶת שָׁקֵד [aˈjelet ʃaˈked]; born 7 May 1976) is an Israeli former politician, activist, and software engineer. She served...
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Palestinians might disappear from the face of the earth, called them "snakes". AyeletShaked, prior to her appointment as Minister of Justice in Benjamin Netanyahu's...
a month, and then Minister of Justice for almost a year and a half. AyeletShaked was appointed as Minister of Justice in 2015. Although a few women did...
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finalizing a right-wing government; two men set to deliver a statement; AyeletShaked will be named justice minister. Heller, Jeffery (6 May 2015). "Netanyahu...
such as Sajid Javid in the United Kingdom, Siv Jensen in Norway, and AyeletShaked in Israel. The financial crisis of 2007–2008 renewed interest in her...
he resigned as the leader of Yamina on 29 June, and was succeeded by AyeletShaked. On 30 June, in accordance with the coalition agreement, Lapid succeeded...
it described as provocative statements he had made, such as calling AyeletShaked "neo-Nazi scum". The decision was later overturned by the Supreme Court...
number of applications for residency increased but the Interior Minister AyeletShaked instructed the Population, Immigration and Border Authority to continue...
dispense justice of sorts." In November 2018, Israeli Justice Minister AyeletShaked asserted that Gaza is an independent state, stating that Palestinians...
General Yehuda Weinstein. In May 2016, the initiative was relaunched by AyeletShaked. In December 2017, over 1,000 central committee members of Likud voted...
finalizing a right-wing government; two men set to deliver a statement; AyeletShaked will be named justice minister. Heller, Jeffery (6 May 2015). "Netanyahu...
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