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MK Tamano-Shata writes to PM to protest marginalization of women in new government
Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata attends a press conference at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on April 4, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
Pnina Tamano-Shata tells Channel 12 that she wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today to protest the marginalization of women in the new government.
MK Tamano-Shata, a member of the opposition National Unity party and a former minister of immigration and absorption, cites an all-male meeting of 10 coalition party heads and other senior coalition members hosted by Netanyahu yesterday.
She also says there is “not a single woman” set to serve as the director general of a government ministry.
PM Netanyahu with the party heads of his coalition. 2023 and not a single woman. #Israel pic.twitter.com/iDwjZ8g3th
— Lidar Gravé-Lazi (@LidarGL) January 22, 2023
“We won’t accept this,” she says. “We will fight this in the Knesset.”
