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Karine Elharrar | |
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קארין אלהרר | |
 Elharrar in 2012 | |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 2021–2022 | Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources |
| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 2013–2019 | Yesh Atid |
| 2019–2020 | Blue and White |
| 2020–2021 | Yesh Atid |
| 2022– | Yesh Atid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1977-10-09)9 October 1977 (age 47) Holon,Israel |
Karine Elharrar-Hartstein (Hebrew:קארין אלהרר-הרטשטיין; born 9 October 1977) is an Israeli lawyer and politician who currently serves as a member of theKnesset forYesh Atid. She wasMinister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources from 2021 to 2022.
Elharrar was born inHolon in 1977[1] to Moti and Colette Elharrar,[2] who wereMoroccan Jewish immigrants. Elharrar attended Kugel High School, and studied law atthe College of Management Academic Studies for a bachelor's degree, before gaining an LLM from theWashington College of Law atAmerican University.[3] Between 2008 and 2013 she headed the legal clinic atBar-Ilan University, and specialised in the rights of Holocaust survivors, people with disabilities, and pensioners.[4]
Elharrar lives inRishon LeZion, and is married with two children. She hasmuscular dystrophy[which?] and uses a wheelchair.[4]
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She joined the newYesh Atid party in 2012 and was placed tenth on the party's list for the2013 Knesset elections.[5] She entered the Knesset as the party won 19 seats. She was placed eighth on the party's list for the2015 elections,[6] and was re-elected as the party won 11 seats. She was re-elected in elections inApril 2019,September 2019 and2020, during which Yesh Atid was part of theBlue and White alliance.
After being re-elected again in theMarch 2021 elections, she was appointedMinister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources in thenew government. In June she resigned from the Knesset under theNorwegian Law and was replaced byInbar Bezek.
Elharrar made headlines during theCOP26 conference inGlasgow, after she was forced to return to her hotel inEdinburgh due to the event not being wheelchair-accessible. She received an apology from British Prime MinisterBoris Johnson, with the disability charityScope calling the incident "inexcusable"; however, Elharrar said it was "a good experience to make sure the next UN conference will be accessible."[7]
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