Naama Lazimi

Naama Lazimi was born in 1986 in Migdal HaEmek

Naama Lazimi was born on 11 January 1986 in Migdal HaEmek to parents of Moroccan Jewish origin. Her father, Avi, was a school principal and deputy mayor of the town. She attended the local Rogozin school.

She served in the IDF as an officer and later as a reserve officer in the Home Front Command. At the University of Haifa she studied political science and Jewish history and was vice chair of the student association.

She worked as a parliamentary adviser to MK Shelly Yachimovich and was active in Koah LaOvdim and Peace Now. In 2018 she was elected to the Haifa City Council, where she chaired the gender equality committee and the board of the Haifa Museums Company.

She entered the Knesset for the Labor Party in 2021 after Omer Bar-Lev resigned under the Norwegian Law. She sponsored bills on the minimum wage and on electronic tracking of convicted domestic abusers. In 2024 she backed Yair Golan, and Labor merged with Meretz into the Democrats.

She took part in protests against the government and chairs the Knesset special committee on young Israelis. Yair Netanyahu filed a lawsuit against her over remarks she made in 2025.