15 Facts About Yifat Shasha-Biton

Yifat Shasha-Biton is an Israeli educator and politician who served as Minister of Education between 2021 and 2022.

Yifat Shasha-Biton served as a Member of the Knesset between 2015 and 2024, as minister without portfolio between 2023 and 2024, and as Minister of Construction and Housing from 2019 to 2020.

Yifat Shasha-Biton was born in Kiryat Shmona in 1973 to Rachel, a nurse born in Morocco and Moshe David, the owner of a transportation company born in Iraq.

Yifat Shasha-Biton attended the Darca Danciger high school in Kiryat Shmona.

Yifat Shasha-Biton wrote her doctoral dissertation on how education affects the understanding of the concept of peace among Israeli and Palestinian students.

Yifat Shasha-Biton became Vice President of Ohalo College, a teacher training college in Katzrin, and was a member of the board at Tel-Hai Academic College.

Yifat Shasha-Biton was elected to the Knesset as the party won ten seats.

Yifat Shasha-Biton was a member of the Science and Technology Committee, the Subcommittee on Space, and was part of the Lobby for Distributive Justice, the Lobby for Promoting a Healthy Body Image among Youth, the Lobby for Women in Business and the Lobby for Narrowing Gaps in Education.

In January 2019 Yifat Shasha-Biton was appointed Minister of Construction and Housing after the incumbent, Kulanu colleague Yoav Gallant, left the party and changed portfolios.

Yifat Shasha-Biton was placed third on the Kulanu list for the April 2019 elections, and was re-elected as the party won four seats.

Yifat Shasha-Biton took a position serving as Knesset Coronavirus chairwoman.

Yifat Shasha-Biton was placed second on the list for the March 2021 elections and retained her seat in the Knesset as New Hope won six seats.

Yifat Shasha-Biton announced that she wished to implement changes in the school week so that high school students in Israel would study for five days a week, instead of six, and elementary school students would study five days a week but with enrichment classes on Friday.

Yifat Shasha-Biton stated that the proposed change would take time to implement.

Yifat Shasha-Biton promptly resigned alongside the rest of New Hope on 25 March 2024.