Eti Atiya Explained

Birth Date:12 February 1960
Birth Place:Lod, Israel
Office1:Faction represented in the Knesset
Suboffice1:Likud
Subterm1:2019–2022
Suboffice3:Likud
Subterm3:2023–

Eti Hava Atiya (Hebrew: אֶתִּי חַוָּה עַטִיָיה, born 12 February 1960)[1] is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud.

Biography

Atiya was born in Lod in 1960 into a family that had immigrated from Djerba in Tunisia.[2] She attended Bar-Ilan University, where she earned a BA in social science and an MA in internal auditing. She also studied for an LLB at Ono Academic College.[2] During the late 1980s she began working for the National Union of Israel Aerospace Industries Employees. In 1993 she was appointed chief of staff to the union's secretary,[2] Haim Katz. When Katz was appointed Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services in 2015, she left the union to become his chief of staff.[2] [3]

In the build-up to the April 2019 elections, Atiya was placed twenty-first on the Likud list,[4] the slot reserved for Gush Dan.[3] She was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 36 seats. She was subsequently re-elected in September 2019, March 2020 and March 2021, but lost her seat in the 2022 elections after being placed thirty-fifth on the Likud list.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Members of the 25th Knesset . 19 April 2024 . Knesset.
  2. https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=992 Hava-Etty Atia
  3. https://www.haaretz.co.il/.premium-1.6914403 חברי הכנסת החדשים בליכוד: יו"ר ועד עובדי רשות התעופה ולוביסטית מצליחה
  4. 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=99&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text Likud list