Elina Bardach-Yalov

Elina Bardach-Yalov was born in 1982 in Moscow

Elina Bardach-Yalov was born in Moscow, then in the Soviet Union, on January 20, 1982. In 1995 she immigrated to Israel with her parents. After short stays in Rishon LeZion and Beersheba, the family settled in Ashdod.

She earned a master's degree in political science at Bar-Ilan University in 2006. In 2009 she received a doctorate in strategic communication from the University of Leeds in Britain. Both works dealt with psychological warfare between Russia and Chechnya.

From 2005 she taught communication at several institutions, including Sheffield Hallam University, David Yellin College, Bar-Ilan University and Hadassah College. From 2011 to 2012 she advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's media team on the Russian-speaking sector. She later served as spokesperson for Avigdor Lieberman and in 2020 headed the spokesperson unit of the Euro-Asian Congress.

She was 10th on the Yisrael Beiteinu list in the 2021 election and entered the Knesset on June 15, 2021, replacing Lieberman under the Norwegian Law. She sat on committees including Labor and Welfare, Health and Public Petitions, and chaired lobbies for road safety, students and women in the periphery. She was 11th on the list in 2022 and was not elected.

In the 2023 local elections she was second on the Ashdod Together list and became a member of the Ashdod city council. She is married to Leonid Bardach, and they live in Ashdod with their son.