Anastassia Michaeli

Anastasia Michaeli (Russian Анастасия Владимировна Михалевская, Hebrew אנסטסיה מיכאלי; born July 12, 1975 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is an Israeli politician, who is responsible for the Jisra'el Beiteinu since 2009 Member of the Knesset; In addition, she also worked as a television journalist, model as well as in business.

Biography

Michaeli was in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, born to ethnic Russians. She completed a degree in electrical engineering at the State University of Telecommunications in Saint Petersburg. During her studies she was crowned the 1995 Miss Saint Petersburg. She then took a year off in which she moved to Paris, where he worked as a model.

On a St. Petersburg technology exhibition she met her future husband Josef Samuelson know. Samuelson, who originally came from Riga in Latvia, immigrated in 1971 at the age of eleven to Israel. They married in 1997 and moved to Israel Michaeli and then converted to Judaism. They have eight children.

She completed a business degree at Bar- Ilan University in Ramat Gan. Your media career began in 2002 when she was hired Plus at the new Russian-language television station in Israel, where she worked as a journalist and presenter. In 2006, she played in twelve episodes with the Israeli series Miluim.

In 2005, she joined the Kadima in, but the party could not win enough votes to secure Michaeli a deputy in the election of 2006. In December 2008, she took on Avigdor Lieberman's offer and joined his party Jisra'el Beiteinu; in the 2009 elections she was placed on Rank 9 and then entered the Knesset after her party won 15 seats.

On January 9, 2012 Michaeli completed during a session of the Parliamentary Commission of Education a glass filled with water and poured it their ( Arab ) colleagues, the deputy Raleb Majadle of the Labor Party in the face. The Ethics Committee of the Knesset, they then suspended for one month. This was not the first incident, in the Michaelmas was involved. In 2010 she was reprimanded by the ethics committee, after she had become violent towards her colleague Hanin Zoabi of the Balad party, by trying to pull this from the platform. Zoabi had previously participated on board the Mavi Marmara on the Free Gaza convoy. In June 2012, she made homophobic remarks on the radio.