Gaby Lasky

Gaby Lasky was born in 1967 in Mexico City

Gaby Lasky was born in Mexico City in 1967 to a Jewish family. Her parents had come to Mexico from Eastern Europe before World War II. In 1982 she moved to Israel alone and lived at a Youth Aliyah boarding school, and her mother and sister came later.

She served as an officer in Gadna. She studied at the College of Management and in a Tel Aviv University program run with Northwestern University. As a student she became the first head of the Meretz student group.

She founded a law firm that deals with free speech and the right to protest. She has represented protest activists, whistleblowers and Palestinians, and has argued petitions before the Supreme Court. She was secretary general of Peace Now in the early 21st century.

From 2013 to 2018 she sat on the Tel Aviv city council for Meretz and led its committee on the status of women. She entered the Knesset in 2021 under the Norwegian law and lost her seat in 2022 when Meretz did not pass the threshold.

After the October 7, 2023 attack she volunteered with the civilian command center. In 2026 she joined The Democrats, led by Yair Golan, and was elected to the 26th Knesset. She is married with 2 children and lives in Tel Aviv.