Gila Gamliel

Gila Gamliel
Date of birth	(1974-02-24) 24 February 1974 (age 43)
Place of birth	Gedera, Israel
Knessets	16, 18, 19, 20
Faction represented in Knesset
2003–2006	Likud
2009–	Likud
Ministerial roles
2015–	Minister for Social Equality

Gila Gamliel (Hebrew: גילה גמליאל‎‎, born 24 February 1974) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Minister for Social Equality.

Born in Gedera to a family of Yemenite and Libyan-Jewish origin, Gamliel studied at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she was awarded a BA in Middle Eastern history and philosophy and an MA in philosophy. During her time as a student, she was elected chairwoman of the university's student union. She was controversially re-elected to the post after her boyfriend Sagiv Assulin had removed members who opposed Gamliel's candidacy from the association's steering council. She also served as the first woman chair of the National Students' Association, and later obtained a Bachelor of Laws at the Ono Academic College and a Master of Laws at the Bar-Ilan University.

For the 1999 elections she was placed 25th on the Likud list, but missed out on a place in the Knesset when the party won only 19 seats. In 2003 she surprisingly won 11th place on the Likud list for the elections that year, ahead of several cabinet ministers. She became a Knesset member when the party won 38 seats, standing down as head of the Ben-Gurion University student's union, where she was replaced by Assulin. Following her election to the Knesset, police decided to open an investigation into the suspected transfer of student funds into a private company. She was also accused of blackmailing a fellow student council member in order to retain the chairmanship of the students' association of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev at the time. Gamliel denied both accusations. In November 2003 the fraud police decided to stop the investigations against her because of lack of enough evidence.

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