Tamar Zandberg (Hebrew: תָּמָר זַנְדְבֵּרְג; born 29 April 1976) is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Environmental Protection from 2021 to 2022, as a member of the Knesset for Meretz from 2013 to 2021, and as the party's leader between 2018 and 2019.
a PhD candidate in Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, researching issues of spatial planning and human rights.
She began her political career in 2003, when she started to work as a parliamentary assistant to Meretz MK Ran Cohen, a job she held until 2008.
Prior to the 2013 elections she was placed sixth on the Meretz list,[7] after raising the funding for her campaign through a crowdsourcing website which enabled people to donate small sums up to 1000 NIS.
[12] Once absentee and soldier ballots were counted, however, Meretz unexpectedly gained a fifth seat, negating the premise for Gal-On's resignation[13] and allowing her to continue as party leader.
[20] That same month, Zandberg and her family briefly vacated their home in Tel Aviv after right-wing protesters made threats against her and her child.