Emilie Moatti

Emilie Moatti was born in 1980 in Netanya

Moatti was born on 27 June 1980 and grew up in Netanya. She is the oldest of six children in a religious family of Tunisian Jewish descent. She left high school at the end of tenth grade because of her family's financial hardship and began working.

At 18 she moved to Tel Aviv, took odd jobs and completed her matriculation exams at the Kibbutzim College. She earned a bachelor's degree in social sciences and humanities from the Open University. In 2003 she went to Paris to study.

In Paris she worked with the Israeli Cinema Festival. In 2010 she opened a public relations office whose clients included Tzipi Livni's Hatnua party. She advised Reuven Rivlin on media in his 2014 presidential campaign and later worked as a political commentator, radio host and Haaretz columnist.

Her first novel, Blue Marks, came out in 2018 and won a prize for debut books. She was elected to the Knesset for Labor in 2021. She was brought from the hospital on a stretcher to vote for the new government, which was installed by a 60 to 59 vote.

She lost her seat in the 2022 elections. In 2025 her book Call It Life was published. She is married to former ambassador Daniel Shek.