Former education minister Yifat Shasha-Biton announces break from politics

File: Yifat Shasha-Biton, at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023 (Olivier Fitoussil/FLASH90)
File: Yifat Shasha-Biton, at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023 (Olivier Fitoussil/FLASH90)

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton, the former education minister, says she is taking time off from politics.

Shasha-Biton, a member of Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party, says “the current political reality does not allow me to have a significant influence, if at all, on the direction of the country.

“The months I spent in the [wartime] cabinet sharpened my understanding of how much it was possible and necessary to run the war differently, on the front lines and on the home front,” she adds.

“With great pain, I have decided at this state to take a break from political life. Sometimes one must take a step back in order to break forward. This is my time to do so.”

Shasha-Biton served as housing minister in 2019-2020, as education minister in 2021-2022 under Naftali Bennett, and as a minister without a portfolio in the emergency cabinet formed shortly after the war began.

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