Anat Knafo

Anat Knafo (Hebrew: ענת כנפו, born 3 September 1963) is an Israeli politician. She briefly served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid in 2021.

Anat Knafo
Faction represented in the Knesset
2021Yesh Atid
Personal details
Born (1963-09-03) 3 September 1963
Israel

Biography

Knafo grew up in Jerusalem and earned a BEd at David Yellin College of Education.[1][2] She moved to the Israeli settlement of Har Adar in 2005,[1] and was elected to its council in 2008, receiving around 35% of the vote. She was re-elected in 2013 with 45% of the vote.[2]

She joined the centrist Yesh Atid party, and after it joined the Blue and White alliance prior to the April 2019 elections, was placed forty-seventh on the alliance's list.[3] However, it won only 35 seats. She was given the forty-fourth spot for the September 2019 elections,[4] again failing to win a seat. Given forty-fourth place again for the March 2020 elections, she failed to win a seat, but entered the Knesset on 2 February 2021 as a replacement for Hila Vazan.[5] She did not run for re-election in the March 2021 elections.[6]

Knafo is married, with four children.[2]

References
  1. Settlement Attack Divides Friendships US News, 20 November 2017
  2. אודות ענת כנפו Anat Knafo
  3. Blue & White list for the 21st Knesset elections Central Election Committee
  4. Blue & White list for the 22nd Knesset elections Central Election Committee
  5. South African MK Wasserman returning to Knesset The Jerusalem Post, 31 January 2021
  6. First-time MK Anat Knafo delivers inaugural speech in the Knesset plenum Knesset
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