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Candidate for the 26th Knesset

Ram Shefa

Biography

Age
41
Before politics
Chair of the student union at the Kibbutzim College, deputy chair and later chair of the National Union of Israeli Students
Public roles
MK (21st–24th Knessets) for Blue and White and the Labor Party; chair of the Education, Culture and Sports Committee; chair of the Committee on Addiction, Drugs and Young Adults' Challenges; chair of the Labor faction; chair of the National Union of Israeli Students; project director for the rehabilitation of the western Negev kibbutzim on behalf of the Kibbutz Movement
Main political focus
Education, welfare of students and young people, fighting drugs and alcohol, agriculture and the periphery
Milestones
As chair of the Education Committee he led campaigns to keep schools open during COVID-19 and to reduce parents' payments; was among the leaders of the dissolution of the 23rd Knesset ("the night of the parking lots"); served as project director for the rehabilitation of the western Negev kibbutzim after October 7 and led a campaign to arrange temporary burial for those murdered in the Gaza border area
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