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| birth_place = [[Kfar Saba]], [[Israel]]
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| Knesset(s) = [[Israeli legislative election, 2006|17]], [[Israeli legislative election, 2009|18]]
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'''Shelly Yachimovich''' ({{lang-he|שלי יחימוביץ׳}}, born 28 March 1960) is an [[Israel]]i journalist and politician. A member of the Knesset since 2006, she is currently leader of the [[Israeli Labor Party]] and the [[Leader of the Opposition (Israel)|Leader of the Opposition]].

==Biography==
===Early life===
Yachimovich was born in [[Kfar Saba]]. Her parents were [[Holocaust]] survivors who [[aliyah|immigrated]] to Israel from [[Poland]].<ref>[http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/israels-internal-tumult-5924 Israel's Internal Tumult, [[Benny Morris]]]</ref> In 1985, Yachimovich graduated from [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]] with a degree in behavioural science.<ref>[http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.6611549/k.BDA2/Shelly_Yachimovich.htm Shelly Yachimovich: Labor MK and Candidate for Labor Party Primaries ]</ref>  She lives in south [[Tel Aviv]] and has two children, Gal and Rama. <ref>[http://www.shelly.org.il/node/2011 Official website ]</ref>

===Journalism and media career===
While studying in [[Beersheba]], she worked as a correspondent for the ''[[Al HaMishmar]]'' newspaper. She went on to become an anchor for the [[Israel Broadcasting Authority]]'s radio station [[Reshet Bet]], earning a reputation as opinionated and critical of conventional wisdom and the establishment.<ref>[http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/israels-internal-tumult-5924 Israel's Internal Tumult, [[Benny Morris]]]</ref> She has also been described as an assertive, abrasive radio journalist with very pronounced feminist and social-democratic views.<ref>[http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/mutiny-on-the-titanic Mutiny on the Titanic [[URI AVNERY]]]</ref> As a journalist, she covered women's and social welfare issues. In October 2000, following a work dispute, she left her radio job and joined  [[Channel 2 (Israel)|Channel 2]] TV, where she hosted a political talk show and served as a news commentator. She also did a weekly program for [[Israel Army Radio]] (''Galei Tzahal''). She has written two novels, "Eshet Ish" (2001) and "Miskhakei Zuggot" (2003) and recently published a nonfiction book, "Anakhnu" (2011).<ref>[http://www.shelly.org.il/node/2011 Official website ]</ref>

===Political career===
On 29 November 2005, two weeks after [[Amir Peretz]] had become leader of the Labor Party, Yachimovich announced she was leaving journalism and entering politics. She ran in the Labor [[Primary election|primaries]] and won ninth place on the party's list for the [[Israeli legislative election, 2006|2006 elections]], in which she was elected to the Knesset. She retained her seat in the [[Israeli legislative election, 2009|2009 elections]], in fifth place the Labor list. After [[Ehud Barak]] left the Labor Party to form [[Independence (Israeli political party)|Independence]] in January 2011, a poll found that Yachimovich was the most popular of the likely candidates for leadership of the Labor Party.<ref>{{cite news|title=Poll finds Yachimovich to be most popular Labor figure|author=Yossi Verter|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/poll-finds-yachimovich-to-be-most-popular-labor-figure-1.338020|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]|date=January 20, 2011|accessdate=January 20, 2011}}</ref> 

On 3 March 2011 Yachimovich declared her candidacy for chairman of the party and sought to sign up new members for the party. By the time the membership drive ended on 6 June, Yachimovich, according to estimates, had signed up more than 17,300 new members. In the primary election for chairman, held on 12 September, Yachimovich came in first among the four contenders, defeating Peretz by a slim margin of 32% to 31%. Since the Labor party constitution requires a minimum of 40% of the votes for a first round decision, a run-off was held on 21 September, resulting in a 54% to 46% victory (a margin of slightly more than 3,500 votes) over Peretz. In the early hours of 22 September, Yachimovich was officially declared chairperson of the Labor Party at party headquarters, the second woman to hold that position.<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/shelly-yachimovich-elected-as-new-leader-of-israel-s-labor-party-1.385901 Shelly Yachimovich elected as new leader of Israel’s Labor Party] Haaretz, 22 September 2011</ref>

Following the announcement on the formation of a unity government on 8 May, 2012 and [[Kadima]]'s departure from the opposition, the Labor Party became the largest party in the opposition. As such , Yachimovich was nominated unopposed as [[Leader of the Opposition (Israel)|Leader of the Opposition]].

==References==
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==External links ==
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Israeli politician
| DATE OF BIRTH     =　28 March 1960
| PLACE OF BIRTH    =　[[Kfar Sava]], [[Israel]]
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