Knesset Member Sofa Landver
Personal Details
Birthday: 28/10/1949
Place of Birth: Leningrad, Russia
Year of Aliyah: 1979
Place of Residence: Ashdod
Number of Children: 1
E-mail: sofal@moia.gov.il
Goverment Activities
Member of the 15th Knesset, the 29th Government from 12/8/2002 to 2/11/2002 as Deputy Minister of Transportation.
Member of the 18th Knesset, the 32nd Government as the Minister of Immigrant Absorption.
Knesset Activities Committee Positions
The 14th Knesset – 17/6/1996-7/6/1999
The 15th Knesset- 7/6/1999-17/2/2003
The 16th Knesset – 11/1/2006- 8/2/2006 (partial period of appointment)
The 17th Knesset – 17/4/2006 – 24/2/2009
The 18th Knesset - 2/24/2009
Positions in the Knesset Directorate
The 15th Knesset – Deputy Knesset Chairperson
Committee Positions
The 14th Knesset
Member of the Science and Technology Committee
Member of the Committee for Public Inquiries
Member of the Aliyah and Absorption Committee
Member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee
The 15th Knesset
Chairperson of the Committee for Public Inquiries
Member of the Knesset Committee
Member of the Finance Committee
Member of the Interior and Environmental Protection Committee
Member of the Law and Legislation Committee
Member of the Committee for Public Inquiries
Member of the Aliyah, Absorption and the Diaspora Committee
Member of the Special Committee on the Issue of School Drop-Outs
Member of the Education and Culture Committee
The 17th Knesset
Member of the Aliyah, Absorption and the Diaspora Committee
Member of the Finance Committee
Chairperson of the Committee for Public Inquiries
Member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee
Additional Positions
The 14th Knesset – Chairperson of the Israel-Kazakhstan Parliamentary Friends Union
Party Affiliations
The 14th Knesset – The Israeli Labor Party
The 15th Knesset – The One Israel Party (2), Labor-Meimad
The 16th Knesset – Labor-Meimad-One Israel
The 17th Knesset – Israel Beitanu
The 18th Knesset- Israel Beitanu
Public Activities
Chairperson of the National Union of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
Member of the Ashdod Municipal Council
Director of the Corporation for the Development of the City of Ashdod
Member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Agency
Publications
Articles in the Russian-language press in Israel.
Languages
Hebrew fluency
Russian mother tongue
Education
Master’s Degree