Naama Lazimi | |
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נעמה לזימי | |
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| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 2021–2024 | Labor Party |
| 2024– | The Democrats |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1986-01-11)11 January 1986 (age 39) Migdal HaEmek, Israel |
Naama Lazimi (Hebrew:נעמה לזימי; born 11 January 1986) is a politician and Member of the Knesset for theDemocrats and previously for theLabor Party. Previously, she was a member of theHaifa City Council and vice chairman of the Student Association at theUniversity of Haifa. She is also involved inLGBT rights activism.[1]
Naama Lazimi was born and raised inMigdal HaEmek[2] toMoroccan Jewish parents. Her father, Avi, was a school principal and deputy mayor of Migdal HaEmek. She studied at the local school 'Rogozin', served in the IDF as an officer in theMinistry of Defense and later as a reserve officer in theHome Front Command. She studied political science and Jewish history at theUniversity of Haifa. As a student she was vice-chair of the University Student Association.[2]
Lazimi worked as a parliamentary adviser to Knesset memberShelly Yachimovich.[3] She founded the Center for Political Training and Resolution of the "Vision" conflict within thePeace Now organization, and chaired the finance committee of theKoah LaOvdim organization.[2] In 2012 she was elected to the Labor Party conference. In 2016, as chairman of the Young Shift of the Labor Party in Haifa, she ran for the presidency of the National Young Shift but lost by a narrow margin.
In the second decade of the 21st century, she moved to theHadar HaCarmel neighborhood of Haifa. In the run-up to the local elections in Israel held in November 2018, an agreement was signed betweenEinat Kalisch-Rotem and the head of the Labor Party,Avi Gabbay, according to which Lazimi was placed third on Kalisch-Rotem's list. In the election, the list won four seats and the mayoralty, and Lazimi was elected a member of the city council. As part of this role, she chaired the Haifa Gender Equality Committee and the board of directors of the Haifa Museums Company, and was a member of the Audit, Welfare and Construction Committees, and the Shikmona Board of Public Housing.[2] She conducted a collaboration between theTechnion and theORT Braude College of Engineering on behalf of ISEF - Israel Scholarship Education Foundation. In addition, she worked as a consultant for the northern field at theJewish National Fund.[3]
In February 2021, ahead of the twenty-fourth Knesset elections,[3] Lazimi was elected in the primaries to the 9th place on the Labor Party list,[4] which received seven seats.
Following the resignation ofOmer Bar-Lev from the Knesset under theNorwegian Law, she entered the Knesset for the first time.[5]
In August 2022, ahead of the twenty-fifth Knesset elections, Lazimi was elected in the primaries to the 1st place on the Labor Party list, second only to party leader Merav Michaeli.
in 2023 Lazimi moved fromHaifa toHolon.[6] She is married and a mother of two.[7]