Nurit Koren

Nurit Koren was born in 1960 in Jerusalem

Koren was born in Jerusalem in 1960 to parents who came from Yemen, and she has four brothers. Her father worked as a laborer, a truck driver and a taxi driver. The family was traditional, and she attended a Bais Yaakov school.

In 1971 her family moved to Kiryat Arba, and she later studied at the Givat Washington youth village. At 17 she married Eli Koren and moved with him to Herzliya. At 38 she began studies at the Open University, earning a BA in social sciences and humanities with honors, and later earned law degrees from Ono Academic College and Bar-Ilan University.

From 2010 to 2012 she managed the office of Gilad Erdan while he was Minister of Environmental Protection. She was 28th on the Likud list in 2015 and entered the Knesset when Likud won 30 seats. In the Knesset she chaired the special committee on the disappearance of Yemenite, Eastern and Balkan children.

In the April 2019 elections she was placed 43rd on the Likud list and lost her seat. She lives in Herzliya and has four children.