Tamar Zandberg

Tamar Zandberg was born in 1976 in Ramat Gan

Zandberg was born in Ramat Gan in 1976. Her mother, Esther Zandberg, is a journalist, and her father, Yoel Zandberg, is a mechanical engineer. She attended Blich High School and is the older sister of footballer Michael Zandberg.

In the IDF she served as a soldier teacher with the Nature Reserves Authority in the Western Galilee. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a master's in social psychology from Ben-Gurion University and a law degree from Tel Aviv University. She taught at Sapir Academic College until she entered the Knesset.

From 2003 to 2008 she was a parliamentary assistant to Meretz MK Ran Cohen. In 2008 she was elected to the Tel Aviv city council, where she chaired the committee on the status of women. She took part in the 2011 social protest movement.

She entered the Knesset for Meretz in 2013 and founded lobbies for sustainable transportation and urban renewal. She proposed bills on paternity leave and on decriminalizing personal cannabis use. She won the Meretz leadership in 2018, lost it to Nitzan Horowitz in 2019, and became Minister of Environmental Protection in June 2021.

In February 2024 she joined Ben-Gurion University to head its national institute for climate policy. In September 2024 she was elected chair of Life and Environment, the umbrella group of Israeli environmental organizations.