page_title: Stav Shaffir
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Stav Shaffir / Political career
caption_attribution_description: Arbeitsbesuch Israel. Bundesminister Kurz trifft die Knesset Abgeordnete Stav Shaffir. Jerusalem. 16.05.2016, Foto: Dragan Tatic Sebastian Kurz visit to Israel, May 2016
context_page_description: Stav Shaffir is an Israeli politician. She is the leader of the Green Party, who was a member of the Knesset for the Democratic Union alliance. She came to national prominence as one of the leaders of the 2011 Israeli social justice protests, focusing on housing, public services, income inequality and democracy, and later became spokeswoman of the movement. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset in 2013 as a member of the Labor Party in 2013. The party contested the 2015 elections as part of the Zionist Union alliance, with Shaffir retaining her seat. She was re-elected again in the April 2019 elections, in which Labor ran alone. However, after losing a Labor leadership election to Amir Peretz in June 2019, she left the party and resigned from the Knesset and became head of the Green Movement. Her new party formed the Democratic Union alongside Meretz and the Israel Democratic Party. Shaffir lost her Knesset seat in the 2020 election.
context_section_description: Shaffir was approached by the Labor Party in May 2012 to join its ranks in preparation for the 2013 general elections held on 22 January 2013. She officially declared her candidacy for the Labor Party list on 12 October 2012. Shaffir placed 9th (moving up to 8th after Amir Peretz's resignation) as a result of the 29 November 2012 primaries, securing her a seat in the Knesset following the 22 January 2013 general elections. After the 13 January 2015 primaries, Shaffir placed second, and so holds the third place on the internal party list (after party leader Isaac Herzog and Shelly Yachimovich). In the combined Labor-Hatnuah party, Shaffir holds the fourth place due to Hatnuah Leader Tzipi Livni's placement behind Herzog.
  Initially elected at age 27, Shaffir became the youngest female Knesset member in its history. She was also the MK with the lowest net worth, a total of $20,000, owning neither an apartment nor a car. She was one of eight MKs to forgo their 2015 pay raise calling it "distasteful" in light of wage stagnation in the Israeli job market.
  On 2 July 2019, Shaffir ran for the head of the Labor Party, and got 27% of the votes after Peretz, who received 47% of the votes. Shmuli reached third after Shaffir, and got 26% of the votes.
caption: Shaffir with Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz in Jerusalem, 2016
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