Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein (Hebrew: פיאמה נירנשטיין) is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and politician. In 2008 she was elected to the Italian Parliament for Silvio Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party and she served as Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies for the length of the legislature, ending in March 2013. On 26 May 2013 she made Aliyah to Israel. In 2015, Nirenstein was nominated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the future ambassador to Italy, but subsequently withdrew for what she stated were personal reasons. She is Senior Fellow of Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. She writes for the Italian daily Il Giornale and contributes articles in English to the Jewish News Syndicate. She is a member of the Israeli Council on Foreign Relations of the World Jewish Congress. She lives in Jerusalem.

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