Anat Knafo Explained

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.

Biography

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-11-20/terror-attack-disrupts-an-israeli-settlements-dealings-with-palestinians Settlement Attack Divides Friendships
  2. https://anatknafo.wordpress.com/about/ אודות ענת כנפו
  3. https://bechirot21.bechirot.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=91&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text Blue & White list for the 21st Knesset elections
  4. https://bechirot22.bechirot.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=133&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text Blue & White list for the 22nd Knesset elections
  5. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/south-african-returning-to-knesset-657299/ South African MK Wasserman returning to Knesset
  6. https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/press7221s.aspx First-time MK Anat Knafo delivers inaugural speech in the Knesset plenum