![Dalia Itzik](https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Dalia-Itzik.jpg)
An educator by training who served for five years as the chairperson of the Jerusalem Teachers Union, Itzik was elected to the Jerusalem City Council in 1989 with the portfolio of deputy mayor in charge of education. In 1992, she was elected to the Knesset and in 2006 she became the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Knesset.