 In 2003, she surprisingly won 11th place on the Likud list for the elections that year, ahead of several cabinet ministers.She became a Knesset member when the party won 38 seats, standing down as head of the Ben-Gurion University students' union, where she was replaced by Assulin.Following her election to the Knesset, police decided to open an investigation into the suspected transfer of student funds into a private company.