Liora Shapiro

The Honorable Liora Shapiro MK
Prime Minister of Tikva
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 October 2019
Preceded by	Jacob Lasker
Leader of the Opposition
In office 19 August 2018 – 2 October 2019
Preceded by	Aron Leverson (Avoda)
Succeeded by	Samuel Rubinstein (Freedom/Herut)
Personal details
Born	30 October 1984 (age 40) Kanon, Tikva
Nationality	Tikvan
Political party	Tikvan Democratic Party
Alma mater	Harel University (B.A. Philosophy; M.S. Conflict Resolution)

Liora Shapiro (Yebru: ליאורה שפירא) is currently Prime Minister of Tikva, leader of the Tikvan Democratic Party, and the nation's youngest leader and Knesset member.

She came to national prominence as one of the leaders of the 2013 social justice protests, focusing on housing, public services, income inequality, and democracy, and later became its spokeswoman of the movement. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset in 2013 as a member of the Avoda Party, running on a platform of improving Tikvan standard of living, social equity, and housing. She ran for reelection as a member of Avoda in 2015 and retained her seat and reelected again in the snap 2018 election. Avoda and their allies failed to break Lasker's coalition, and the leader of the Opposition at the time, Aron Levenson, stepped down. Shapiro assumed both roles immediately. She spent most of her time shining a light on the government's corruption, and its favoritism, and willingness to side with the far-right religious minority (including their calls for annexing the Samarran Valley).

When the Lev Party announced its withdrawal from Lasker's Government, the Government found itself without a majority and had no choice but to call another round of snap elections. Seeing an opportunity to significantly wound the political right, Shapiro formed the Tikvan Democratic Party (TDP) through the merger of every active left-wing political party in the country. Between unifying the base and running on a platform of peace in the Samarran Valley, social democracy, liberalism, environmentalism, and equality for all, the infant party won the most seats, 41 out of 120, in the October 2019 election. Although they did not win an outright majority, she formed a coalition with two centrist parties: Bridge (Gesher), and Forward (Kadima). Though they could not govern outright, her victory is still a tremendous victory for the left -- the first time since 1968 that the left had such a large influence in the parliament. With her Governing majority, she intends to move Tikva back to its more secular and egalitarian roots, modified for the twenty-first century.

As Prime Minister

To be determined