Karine Elharrar

Karine Elharrar-Hartstein (Hebrew: קארין אלהרר-הרטשטיין; born 9 October 1977) is an Israeli lawyer and politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid.

[3] Between 2008 and 2013 she headed the legal clinic at Bar-Ilan University, and specialised in the rights of Holocaust survivors, people with disabilities, and pensioners.

After being re-elected again in the March 2021 elections, she was appointed Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources in the new government.

Elharrar made headlines during the COP26 conference in Glasgow, after she was forced to return to her hotel in Edinburgh due to the event not being wheelchair-accessible.

She received an apology from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with the disability charity Scope calling the incident "inexcusable"; however, Elharrar said it was "a good experience to make sure the next UN conference will be accessible.

Karine Elharrar (far left) meeting with President Reuven Rivlin on "Leadership and Disability" in January 2018