{{short description|Israeli politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |image = חה"כ לאה פדידה.jpg |caption = Fadida in 2012 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|9|6|df=y}} |birth_place = Haifa, Israel |death_date = |death_place = |office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset |suboffice1 = Zionist Union |subterm1 = 2017–2019 |suboffice2 = Labor Party |subterm2 = 2019 }}
'''Leah Fadida Ben Sheetrit''' ({{langx|he|לאה פדידה}}; born 6 September 1968) is an Israeli politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union and the Labor Party between 2017 and 2019.
==Biography== Fadida was born in Haifa; her mother was an immigrant from Romania and her father was an immigrant from Morocco. She grew up in the Hativat Carmeli neighbourhood of Haifa.<ref name=NRG>[http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/415/410.html The mother who made a change in Yokneam wants to enter the Knesset] NRG, 14 November 2012</ref> She studied for a BA in social science at the Open University of Israel before gaining a master's degree in public policy at Tel Aviv University.<ref name=K>[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=963 Leah Fadida: Particulars] Knesset</ref> She also studied wilderness management at the University of Montana and worked for the forestry section of the Jewish National Fund in northern Israel.<ref name=K/><ref name=NRG/> She went on to become director of the JNF's public relations department.<ref name=K2>[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=963 Leah Fadida: Public Activities] Knesset</ref> In the late 1990s she was elected to Yokneam Illit City Council,<ref name=NRG/> serving as deputy mayor from 2002 until 2017.<ref name=K2/>
A member of the Labor Party, Fadida was placed 32nd on the party's list for the 2013 Knesset elections,<ref>[https://www.haaretz.co.il/1.1876863 Michaeli, Bar-Lev and Shapir in the top ten; 6 women in the top 20 places] Haaretz, 30 November 2012</ref> but failed to win a seat. Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 27th on the list of the Zionist Union, an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah.<ref>[http://www.bechirot20.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=8&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text Zionist Union list] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725214450/http://www.bechirot20.gov.il/election/Candidates/Pages/OneListCandidates.aspx?LPF=Search&WebId=6adadc15-e476-480b-9746-04490aedeb0f&ListID=ba72a662-765c-45af-9d48-fb68080956af&ItemID=8&FieldID=ListNickname_GxS_Text |date=2018-07-25 }} Central Elections Committee</ref> Although the alliance won only 24 seats, Fadida entered the Knesset on 6 October 2017 as a replacement for Erel Margalit,<ref>[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/MKIndex_Current_eng.asp?view=5 Replacements Among Knesset Members] Knesset</ref> who returned to the business world after losing the party leadership election to Avi Gabbay.<ref name=TOI>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/labor-mk-margalit-quits-knesset-in-second-party-resignation-in-week/ Labor MK Margalit quits Knesset, in second party resignation in week] Times of Israel, 3 October 2017</ref> She was placed nineteenth on the Labor list for the April 2019 elections, but the party won only six seats.
Fadida is married with two children and lives in Yokneam Illit.<ref name=K/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{MKlink|id=963}}
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