Shuli Mualem

Shuli Mualem was born in 1965 in Haifa

Mualem was born in Haifa in 1965 to a religious family of 9 children. Her parents had immigrated from Morocco shortly before her birth. She grew up in the Neve David neighborhood and was active in the Bnei Akiva youth movement.

She served as a teacher during her service. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing at the Shaare Zedek nursing school and later studied industrial engineering at the graduate level.

She worked as a nurse at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and headed its risk management unit. She also lectured at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her husband Moshe was killed in the 1997 helicopter disaster, after which she became deputy and acting chair of the IDF Widows and Orphans organization and worked for widows to keep their pensions after remarrying.

She entered the Knesset for the Jewish Home in 2013, lost her seat in 2015, and returned that October under the Norwegian Law. In December 2018 she left to help form the New Right, which did not pass the threshold in April 2019. In September 2020 she joined Likud.