Nava Boker, a new member of Knesset from the Likud, first met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in December 2010 under difficult circumstances. It was after she lost her husband, senior police commander Lior Boker, at the Carmel fire disaster a month earlier.

Boker, then an active journalist, demanded answers to the debacle that happened at the fire, which is reportedly the largest fire in the history of the state. Forty-three people lost their lives in the fire besides her husband, most of them policemen, as a result of gross systematic errors. A state comptroller’s report that looked into the response to the event found that the Israeli firefighting and emergency system is antiquated and limited, more befitting a developing country than a modern country such as Israel. In the end, firefighters overcame the fire only with extensive international help.

At the meeting, Netanyahu promised to create an airborne firefighting system, and Boker essentially began her public activism when she became one of the figures identified with the call to improve the firefighting and emergency system. This is what paved her way to the Knesset. The prime minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, also participated in the meeting and since then has made sure to support Boker and keep in touch with her.

In the recent election cycle, Boker repaid Sara Netanyahu when she stood up to defend the prime minister's wife in the media following the various attacks on Sara Netanyahu's character. Boker was 25th on the Likud list, which was reserved for a new woman (who was not in the Knesset before the election), and plans to continue her fight to improve Israeli emergency services from within the Knesset.