 In June 2003, she and three other Likud MKs were banned from the Likud faction for three months after voting against government economic policy.During her first term in the Knesset, she chaired the committee on the Status of Women, and in March 2005 was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture.Gamliel missed out on a place on the Likud list for the 2006 elections, and lost her seat.