Ram Shefa

Ram Shefa was born in 1985 in Givat Haim (Ihud)

Shefa was born in 1985 on kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud). His father Gershon was an Olympic swimmer and his mother Tamar was a kindergarten teacher. He attended the Maya'an Shahar school and then did a service year at the Beit HaYeled boarding school in Tel Aviv.

He served in the IDF in the Shaldag Unit. Afterward he worked in agriculture at moshav Ein Yahav in the Arava, volunteered abroad with Tevel B'Tzedek, and then worked for the Aharei organization.

In 2012 he began undergraduate studies at the Kibbutzim College and was elected head of its student union. He became deputy chair of the National Union of Israeli Students in 2014 and its chair in 2016, when he also began a master's degree in public policy at Tel Aviv University.

In 2019 he joined the Israel Resilience Party and entered the Knesset on the Blue and White list. In 2021 he moved to the Labor Party, was reelected, and chaired the Education Committee. He lost his seat in the 2022 elections.

After the October 7 massacre, the Kibbutz Movement appointed him to lead the rebuilding of the western Negev kibbutzim. He is married to Efrat Resner, has a son, and lives in Givat Haim (Ihud).