Leah Fadida

Leah Fadida Ben Sheetrit (Hebrew: לאה פדידה; born 6 September 1968) is an Israeli politician.

[2] She also studied wilderness management at the University of Montana and worked for the forestry section of the Jewish National Fund in northern Israel.

[3] In the late 1990s she was elected to Yokneam Illit City Council,[1] serving as deputy mayor from 2002 until 2017.

Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 27th on the list of the Zionist Union, an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah.

[5] Although the alliance won only 24 seats, Fadida entered the Knesset on 6 October 2017 as a replacement for Erel Margalit,[6] who returned to the business world after losing the party leadership election to Avi Gabbay.