Orit Svetlana Zuaretz

Orit Svetlana Zuaretz was born in 1967 in Krasnoyarsk

Zuaretz was born Svetlana Moiseyevna Chernyak in Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia, in the Soviet Union. In 1971 she immigrated to Israel with her family and settled in Migdal HaEmek. There she converted to Judaism together with her mother and brother.

She attended the Steinberg boarding school and Katznelson High School in Kfar Saba. She earned a BA in social sciences and humanities from the Open University and Beit Berl. She later earned an MA in modern Middle East studies from Tel Aviv University.

From 2003 to 2006 she was deputy head of the Kadima-Tzoran local council. She entered the Knesset in 2009 from 28th place on the Kadima list. In the Knesset she chaired the subcommittee on trafficking in women and promoted a bill to criminalize clients of prostitution.

In 2012 she left Kadima for Hatnuah, led by Tzipi Livni. She was 10th on its list in 2013 and was not reelected. In March 2018 she was appointed director of a Jewish identity program of the Genesis-Trigubov fund and the Jewish Agency in Saint Petersburg. She lives in Kadima-Tzoran, is married and has 3 children.