Meli Polishook-Bloch

Meli Polishook-Bloch was born in 1953 in Ra'anana

Polishook-Bloch was born in Ra'anana as Carmela Polishook and has lived in the city all her life. She earned a BA in political science and theatre arts and an MA in political science and public policy from Tel Aviv University. She also earned a law degree from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

She taught history and geography at Ostrovsky High School in Ra'anana and later ran her family's electrical goods store. She joined Shinui in 1981, founded its Ra'anana branch and chaired its information committee from 1990 to 1999. She then chaired the party's economic committee from 1999 to 2003.

She entered the Knesset in 2003 from eighth place on the Shinui list. She chaired the Science and Technology Committee, the Education, Culture and Sports Committee and the State Control Committee. Before the 2006 elections she moved to the Secular Faction, later Hetz, which did not pass the electoral threshold.

She later led the Derekh Aheret movement. She was elected to the Ra'anana city council in 2008 and became deputy mayor in 2012. She runs a law office and serves as a director at ACUM.