Adi Koll

Adi Koll (Hebrew: עדי קול‎, born 19 March 1976) is an Israeli social activist and former politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2015.

Adi Koll
Date of birth (1976-03-19) 19 March 1976
Place of birthJerusalem
Knessets19
Faction represented in Knesset
2013–2015Yesh Atid

Biography

Koll studied for a bachelor's degree in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she established a careers centre. She later obtained an LLM and a JSD in law at Columbia University.[1][2] In 2005 she started working as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, and was also a member of the faculty at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from 2009 until 2013. She founded the University of the People, which provides free university courses taught by students at Tel Aviv University.[3]

She joined the new Yesh Atid party in 2012 and was placed ninth on the party's list for the 2013 Knesset elections.[4] She entered the Knesset after the party won 19 seats. In December 2014 she announced that she would not stand in the 2015 elections,[5] and would return to the education field.[6]

Koll lives in Tel Aviv.[3]

References
  1. All the kingmaker’s men, and women Times of Israel, 23 January 2013
  2. Koll, Adi (2007). Parents act in the best interests of their children : an inquiry into the development of the Supreme Court parental presumption (Thesis (JSD)).
  3. Meet the MK: Adi Kol The Jerusalem Post, 20 February 2013
  4. Yesh Atid Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Central Elections Committee
  5. Enough for Her: Adi Koll leaves politics NRG, 30 December 2014
  6. Yesh Atid's MK Koll Quits Politics Israel National News, 31 December 2014
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