Nava Arad (Hebrew: נאוה ארד; 4 December 1938 – 21 February 2022) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1981 and 1992, and again from 1995 until 1996.

Born in Kibbutz Hulda in Mandatory Palestine, Arad served as a welfare sergeant in Nahal brigade during her national service in the IDF.

She was also a member of the Histadrut central committee, secretary general of Na'amat, and vice-president and Middle East representative of Socialist International Women.

She returned to the Knesset on 5 November 1995 as a replacement for the assassinated Rabin,[2] but on 7 March the following year left the Labor Party to sit as an independent.

[3] For the May 1996 elections she founded the Gil list, a pensioner's party, but it failed to cross the electoral threshold, and she lost her seat.