Sheffi Paz

Sheffi Paz was born in 1952 in Łódź

Sheffi Paz was born in Łódź, Poland, in 1952 to parents who survived the Holocaust. In 1956 the family moved to Israel and she grew up in Holon. As a teenager she was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement.

She did her army service in the Ordnance Corps and began university studies at the same time. She earned a bachelor's degree in general history at Tel Aviv University. She worked as a translator, editor and page layout maker.

After coming out as a lesbian, she was a Meretz member for decades and an LGBT rights activist in the group Klaf. She joined protests outside the home of President Ezer Weizman after his homophobic remarks, and took part in the 2011 social justice protests. She and her partner moved to the Shapira neighborhood in south Tel Aviv, and in 2002 she hid a Nigerian migrant neighbor from immigration police.

Her views later changed, and she led the South Tel Aviv Liberation Front within the group Otef Tahana HaMerkazit, organizing protests against the presence of African migrants. She led weekly protests outside the homes of Supreme Court presidents, was arrested several times, and joined Likud. In January 2020 she was charged over vandalism at the European Union delegation office in Israel. She died in 2026.