Shlomi Amsalem · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ayelet Shaked began her career as a software engineer at Texas Instruments before co-founding the grassroots "My Israel" movement with Naftali Bennett in 2010. She went on to serve as Justice Minister from 2015 to 2019 and Interior Minister from 2021 to 2022, and helped found two political parties, the New Right and Yamina, becoming one of the Knesset's most legislatively active members — credited with drafting Israel's NGO transparency law and its comprehensive counterterrorism statute. Though she represented The Jewish Home, a religious party, for years, she has identified as secular throughout.