Ayelet Nachmias-Verbin

Ayelet Nachmias-Verbin was born in 1970 in Tel Aviv

Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin was born in Tel Aviv in 1970 and grew up in the city's Old North. Her paternal grandparents fled Thessaloniki, Greece, in January 1933. Her mother's family descends from Michael Krasik, one of the 7 founders of Nahalal.

She studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She later earned a master's degree in commercial law in the Berkeley program at Tel Aviv University.

She joined the Labor Party in 1991 and worked with Yitzhak Rabin, later as assistant to the legal advisor in the Prime Minister's Office. After his assassination she founded the Shalom Haver association in his memory and ran it. In 2007 she and her brother inherited the Tavlit Plastic irrigation company, and she became its chair while also serving on several company boards.

She entered the Knesset in 2015 from 22nd place on the Zionist Union list. She sat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Economic Affairs Committee and headed lobbies for Israeli industry and organ donation. In January 2019 she announced she would not run in the Labor primaries.

In 2020 she became vice president of the Manufacturers Association and chair of the Jewish Agency's JReady project. From 2021 to 2023 she chaired the Israel Export Institute.