Naama Lazimi

Naama Lazimi (; born 11 January 1986) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for the Democrats and previously for the Labor Party. Previously, she was a member of the Haifa City Council and vice chairman of the Student Association at the University of Haifa.

Biography Naama Lazimi was born and raised in Migdal HaEmek to Moroccan Jewish parents. Her father, Avi, was a school principal and deputy mayor of Migdal HaEmek. She studied at the local school 'Rogozin', served in the IDF as an officer in the Ministry of Defense and later as a reserve officer in the Home Front Command. She studied political science and Jewish history at the University of Haifa. As a student she was vice-chair of the University Student Association. She founded the Center for Political Training and Resolution of the "Vision" conflict within the Peace Now organization, and chaired the finance committee of the Koah LaOvdim organization. which received seven seats.

In The Democrats primary elections held on July 20, 2026, ahead of the 2026 Israeli legislative election, Lazimi came in at number two on the slate.

Knesset member Following the resignation of Omer Bar-Lev from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law, she entered the Knesset for the first time.

In August 2022, ahead of the twenty-fifth Knesset elections, Lazimi was elected in the primaries to the 2nd place on the Labor Party list, second only to party leader Merav Michaeli. The Labor Party only retained four seats in the election.

Lazimi led an effort in October 2021, which included eight other MKs from both the government and the opposition, to sponsor a bill which would raise the minimum wage by 35% to 40 NIS (equivalent to $12.50 USD). In December 2022, Lazimi presented a bill to peg Knesset members' wages to the minimum wage.

In March 2023, Lazimi, along with Michaeli, Gideon Sa'ar, and Meirav Ben-Ari, proposed a bill that would allow courts to use electronic tracking on convicted domestic abusers. The bill was defeated with 59 votes for and 60 votes against, primarily due to opposition from the national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

The Labor Party held a leadership election in 2024. Lazimi endorsed the former IDF deputy chief of staff Yair Golan, who ran on a platform of merging Labor with the left-wing party Meretz. Lazimi stated, "The responsibility for change and hope is on us. We have an opportunity for a diplomatic-security, economic, and social horizon for life itself." Golan described Lazimi and her fellow Labor MK Gilad Kariv as "excellent parliamentarians". Following Golan's victory, the two parties merged into a new left-wing alliance called the Democrats in June of that year.

Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has lived abroad with bodyguards since 2023, which was estimated to cost the government NIS 2.5 million (equivalent to $680,000 USD) in 2024. In February 2025, during a Knessset Finance Committee meeting, Lazimi criticized this, and asserted that Netanyahu was "exiled" for allegedly hitting his father, stating: I want to ask about the prime minister’s son, Yair Netanyahu. Last year, an article stated that his security costs around NIS 2.5 million per year. I want to ask whether this sum is still budgeted and whether there is still an intention to fund the prime minister’s son’s stay because he hit the prime minister and had to be abroad as he damaged a symbol of authority.

She serves as the chair of the Knesset's special committee on Young Israelis.

Protests Lazimi has been heavily active in anti-government protests during the Gaza war. After Tel Aviv resident Noa Goldenberg was arrested in September 2024 for allegedly throwing sand on National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Lazimi and Yesh Atid MK Vladimir Beliak were involved in a protest outside of the prison where she was being held, calling for her release. In July 2024, Ben-Gvir called Lazimi a "criminal" due to her participation in protests.

Also in September 2024, police in Tel Aviv barred a protest that would block an intersection, stating that the expected turnout would be too to justify blocking the intersection. Lazimi criticized the police, arguing that they were suppressing protests on Ben-Gvir's orders.

During a protest on 31 March 2025, Lazimi was attacked by police. Afterwards, she accused the police of suppressing democracy and working "for the coup government, a Kahanist criminal and a prime minister suspected of serious security incidents". The following day, opposition leader Yair Lapid sent a letter to Knesset speaker Amir Ohana, requesting that police protect lawmakers and demonstrators, and criticizing police brutality against Lazimi, other MKs, and citizens, whom he referred to as "Israeli patriots". However, in May, a leaked conversation included Lapid criticizing Golan and the Democrats as being "radical leftists". While he praised protests and criticized the government, he said that, "we don’t think that jumping on water cannons like Na’ama Lazimi is what will save the State of Israel." Golan defended his party and its approach on Twitter.

She supports the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, and a two-state solution to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. and called for sanctions against him and warned against his reelection.

In June 2025, United States President Donald Trump made posts calling for an end to Netanyahu's corruption trial, referring to it as a "Witch Hunt" and a "travesty of 'justice'", and accusing it of interfering in negotiations with Iran and Hamas. In response, Lazimi criticized Netanyahu, stating that by, "trading his indictment in exchange for a political settlement and an end to the war", he demonstrated his unfitness for office and is "conditioning the future of Israel and our children on his trial".

Personal life In 2023 Lazimi moved from Haifa to Holon. She is married and a mother of two. Her relative, Dor Lazimi, was killed at the Nahal Oz Outpost during the October 7th attacks.