Zehava Gal-On

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Zehava Gal-On
Date of birth 4 January 1956
Place of birth Soviet Union
Year of Aliyah 1960
Knesset(s) 15th, 16th, 17th
Party Meretz-Yachad

Zehava Gal-On (Hebrew: זהבה גלאון‎, born 4 January 1956) is an Israeli politician. She is a member of the Knesset for the Meretz-Yachad, and is the party's parliamentary chairwoman.

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Gal-On was born in 1956 in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel in 1960. She is married with two children and lives in Petah Tikva. She is an MA student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]

She served as general secretary of the paper Politika, of the Human Rights organization B'Tselem, and of the Ratz party. She is a member of the general directorate of Meretz. Among her main activities: the struggle for human and civil rights,[2] women's rights and the fight for social justice.[1] She has expressed her support for the IDF refuseniks.[3]

She was elected to the Knesset in 1999. She is currently chairwoman of the Knesset committee for the struggle against trading in women.[4] She is also a member of the Knesset law and constitution committee and the Knesset committee.[1]

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