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Einat Wilf (Hebrew: עינת וילף, born 11 December 1970) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party.[1][2]
Biography[]
Einat Wilf was born in Jerusalem and raised in a Labor Zionist family. She studied at the Hebrew University Secondary School. She completed her military service as an Intelligence Officer in Unit 8200[3] with the rank of Lieutenant.[4] She then went to Harvard University, receiving a BA in government and fine arts, before earning an MBA from INSEAD in France, and subsequently a PhD in political science at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Wilf married German journalist and television personality Richard Gutjahr in 2007. She gave birth to their son in 2010.[5]
Wilf describes herself as a Zionist and an atheist.[6]
Political and business career[]
Wilf served as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres,[7] a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company[8] in New York City and a General Partner with Koor Corporate Venture Capital in Israel. Upon her return to Israel Wilf worked as a Senior Fellow with the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and a weekly columnist for the daily newspaper Israel HaYom. Wilf also taught social entrepreneurship at Sapir College, as well as a frequent guest on Israeli radio and television talk shows and a member of the President's Conference Steering Committee.
In 2007, she ran for the presidency of the World Jewish Congress.[9] However, she withdrew before the actual vote, and Ronald Lauder was elected president.
A member of the Israeli Labor Party, Wilf was placed 39th on the party's list for the 2003 elections, but failed to win a seat.[10] She won fourteenth place on the party's list for the 2009 Knesset elections. Although Labor won only 13 seats, Wilf entered the Knesset on 10 January 2010 as a replacement for Ophir Pines-Paz,[11] who had retired from politics.[12] However, in January 2011 she was one of five MKs to leave the party to establish the new Independence party under the leadership of Ehud Barak.[13] She lost her Knesset seat in January 2013 when the party chose not to contest the elections.
Published works[]
- My Israel, Our Generation, BookSurge Publishing (2007), ISBN 1-4196-5913-8
- Back to Basics: The Road to Saving Israel's Education (at no extra cost), Yedioth Ahronot (April 2008)
- Global actors and global politics : the case of the World Jewish Congress campaign against the Swiss Banks (thesis, Cambridge 2008) Cambridge, UK.
- Symposium on Rabin's legacy, Fathom, Autumn 2015
- Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 3, 2015), ISBN 978-1515072973
- Perry Anderson's House of Zion: A Symposium, Fathom, Spring 2016
- Telling Our Story: Essays on Zionism, the Middle East, and the Path to Peace, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 19, 2018), ISBN 978-1515072973
- The War of Return, Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir (2018), ISBN 978-9-655-66700-4
References[]
- ↑ "When It Comes to Defending Israel, Eloquent Explanations Aren't Enough". https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2015/11/when-it-comes-to-defending-israel-eloquent-explanations-arent-enough/.
- ↑ "Einat Wilf | The Harry Walker Agency" (in en). https://www.harrywalker.com/speakers/einat-wilf.
- ↑ "Think About It: Parliamentary oversight of foreign policy". August 30, 2015. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Think-About-It-Parliamentary-oversight-of-foreign-policy-413743.
- ↑ "Knesset Member, Einat Wilf". https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=849.
- ↑ Hoffman, Gil (13 December 2010). "Labor MK Einat Wilf gives birth to baby boy". http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=199280. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ↑ Wilf, Einat (2 April 2012). "Zionism: The Only Way Forward" (in en). The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/02/zionism-the-only-way-forward.html.
- ↑ "On working with Shimon Peres". 4 May 2007. http://www.wilf.org/English/2007/05/04/on-working-with-shimon-peres/.
- ↑ "Einat Wilf" (in en). https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/view/einat-wilf.
- ↑ "Young reformer sets sights on making WJC more inclusive". The Jerusalem Post. May 30, 2007. https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Young-reformer-sets-sights-on-making-WJC-more-inclusive.
- ↑ "Candidates for the 16th Knesset". Jan 9, 2003. http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutIsrael/History/Pages/Candidates%20for%20the%2016th%20Knesset.aspx.
- ↑ "Knesset Members in the Eighteenth Knesset". https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindexbyknesset_eng.asp?knesset=18.
- ↑ "Labor Stalwart Ophir Pines-Paz Leaves Knesset, Party and Politics" (in en). Haaretz. January 8, 2010. https://www.haaretz.com/1.5083233.
- ↑ "Ehud Barak quits Israel's Labour Party" (in en). BBC News. 17 January 2011. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-12205673/ehud-barak-quits-israel-s-labour-party.
External links[]
- Official website
- Einat Wilf on the Knesset website
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