Meet Ruth Wasserman Lande, Blue and White's new MK raised in Cape Town

• Author: GIL HOFFMAN
• Published date: 07 January 2021
• Date: 07 January 2021

Wasserman Lande will also fall in the footsteps of former foreign minister and MK Abba Eban, who was born in Cape Town and left for England at age three, because she became a Foreign Ministry-trained diplomat. She was born in Israel and then lived in Cape Town, where she attended the Herzliya High School. She later studied at Oxford University's St. Anthony's College and at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on a Wexner Fellowship. She has served as an adviser to president Shimon Peres, a deputy ambassador at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and the deputy director-general for international affairs at the Israeli Federation of Local Authorities.

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, she said she was excited to get messages from her South African school friends across the globe since The Post first wrote that should be entering the Knesset. Most of her family lives in Los Angeles.

"I feel a huge amount of responsibility," she said. "I know that it's for a very short time, and that I am stepping into a complicated situation...