Birth Date: | 3 September 1963 |
Birth Place: | Israel |
Office1: | Faction represented in the Knesset |
Suboffice1: | Yesh Atid |
Subterm1: | 2021 |
Anat Knafo (Hebrew: ענת כנפו; born 3 September 1963) is an Israeli politician. She briefly served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid in 2021.
Knafo grew up in Jerusalem and earned a BEd at David Yellin College of Education.[1] [2] She moved to the Israeli settlement of Har Adar in 2005,[1] and was elected to its council in 2008, receiving around 35% of the vote. She was re-elected in 2013 with 45% of the vote.[2]
She joined the centrist Yesh Atid party, and after it joined the Blue and White alliance prior to the April 2019 elections, was placed forty-seventh on the alliance's list.[3] However, it won only 35 seats. She was given the forty-fourth spot for the September 2019 elections,[4] again failing to win a seat. Given forty-fourth place again for the March 2020 elections, she failed to win a seat, but entered the Knesset on 2 February 2021 as a replacement for Hila Vazan.[5] She did not run for re-election in the March 2021 elections.[6]
Knafo is married, with four children.[2]