13 Facts About Marina Solodkin

Marina Solodkin was an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Likud and Kadima.

Marina Solodkin emigrated to Israel from Russia in the early 1990s and joined the immigrant Yisrael BaAliyah party and entered the Knesset in 1996.

Marina Solodkin served as a lawmaker until February 2013 when she lost her seat in the elections.

Marina Solodkin died of a stroke in a hotel room in Latvia on 16 March 2013.

Marina Solodkin was survived by her husband and two children.

In Israel, Marina Solodkin joined the Russian-immigrant party, Yisrael BaAliyah led by Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky.

Marina Solodkin was elected to the Knesset in the 1996 elections on the party's list and chaired the committee on the Status of Women.

Shortly before the 2006 elections Marina Solodkin resigned from the Knesset in order to join Kadima.

Marina Solodkin gained 6th place on the party's list and was re-elected.

Marina Solodkin called for foreign agricultural workers to be replaced with Ethiopian immigrants, and demanded that Ariel Toaff be put on trial for his book about blood libel.

Marina Solodkin has said that Ehud Olmert should resign over the 2006 Lebanon War.

Marina Solodkin retained her seat in the 2009 elections after being placed tenth on the party's list.

On 5 December 2012, in the days leading up to the 2013 elections, while polls showed Kadima either barely getting into the Knesset or not even passing the threshold, Marina Solodkin announced she would not contest the elections.