Ayelet Shaked
| Ayelet Shaked | |
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| Date of birth | 7 May 1976 |
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Knessets | 19, 20 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 2013– | Jewish Home |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 2015– | Minister of Justice |
Ayelet Shaked (/ˈɑːjɛlɛt ʃɑː.kɛd/; Hebrew: איילת שקד; born 7 May 1976) is an Israeli politician and computer engineer. She has served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home since 2013, and as Minister of Justice since 2015. Although representing a religious party, Shaked identifies as a secular politician. She is the only secular woman in her party. She began her career in the Tel Aviv high-tech industry. She is considered one of Israel's most active legislators, and initiated and drafted laws including Israel's 2016 NGO transparency law and its comprehensive law against terrorism.
Shaked was born Ayelet Ben Shaul in Tel Aviv to a well-educated upper-middle-class Israeli family. Her paternal grandmother immigrated to Israel from Iraq as a single mother in the 1950s as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, carefully investing her money in property and education of her children. Her father was an accountant and voted Likud. Shaked describes herself as 'half-Iraqi and proud of it'. Her mother, a Bible teacher, was Ashkenazi (whose ancestors migrated as part of the First Aliyah from Russia and Romania in the 1880s) and voted for center-left parties.
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