Adi Koll
Israeli social activist and former politician
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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]