Stav Shaffir

Stav Shaffir was born in 1985 in Netanya

Shaffir was born in Netanya in 1985. Her mother Vered is a teacher and her father Roni is an accountant. As a child she moved with her family to Pardesiya and later guided in the Working and Studying Youth movement.

In 2003 she volunteered for a service year in Tiberias with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. After the army she studied sociology and journalism at City University of London and received a B.A. in 2009. She later studied at the Rimon School of Music and at Tel Aviv University, where she completed an M.A. in security and diplomacy in 2022.

Shaffir worked as a journalist and editor for outlets including Ha'ir and Xnet. In 2011 she was one of the leaders and spokespeople of the social justice protests, and in 2012 she co-founded the Israeli Social Movement.

She entered the Knesset with the Labor Party in 2013 and sat on the Finance Committee, where she worked on budget transparency. In 2015 she became chair of the Knesset Transparency Committee. After losing the Labor leadership race to Amir Peretz in 2019, she led the Green Movement within the Democratic Union and lost her seat in 2020.

In 2022 she married Amit Stiebe. In 2025 she published a book on the state budget and democracy.