Eti Atiya
Hava Eti Atiya is an Israeli politician. She is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud.Biography
Atiya was born in Lod in 1960 into a family that had immigrated from Djerba in Tunisia. She attended Bar-Ilan University, where she earned a BA in social science and an MA in internal auditing. She also studied for an LLB at Ono Academic College. During the late 1980s she began working for the National Union of Israel Aerospace Industries Employees. In 1993 she was appointed chief of staff to the union's secretary, Haim Katz. When Katz was appointedMinister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services in 2015, she left the union to become his chief of staff.
In the build-up to the April 2019 elections, Atiya was placed twenty-first on the Likud list, the slot reserved for Gush Dan. She was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 36 seats. She was subsequently re-elected in September 2019 and March 2020.
