Swid was born in
Hadera, Israel, to Yosef and Bruria (née Castel) Maimon. Her father was a
Libyan-Jewish immigrant to Israel while her mother was the scion of
Sephardi Jewish family native to
Jerusalem which had participated in the founding of Hadera. She completed her BA and MA in
law at
Bar-Ilan University. She later interned in the criminal division of the Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office. For several years she worked as an attorney in
Netanya. In 1994 she served for several months as General Counsel of the
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera. That same year, she founded an independent law firm. Among its clients were the Abutbul family, members of the
Israeli mafia. She came to notoriety as a defense attorney during the murder trial of Ronnie Ron and Marie-Charlotte Pizem for the killing of 4-year-old
Rose Pizem in 2008. Swid is chair of the Criminal Affairs Division of the Tel Aviv District of the
Israel Bar Association. She is an adjunct professor at
Sha'arei Mishpat College and serves as a consultant to private companies in matters of criminal law. A member of the
Labor Party, she was elected to the fourteenth slot on the
Zionist Union list for the
2015 Knesset elections. She was elected to the
Knesset after winning the April and September 2019 elections. However, she lost her seat after placing 10 in the
Labor-Gesher-Meretz list in the
2020 Israeli legislative election. An observant Jew, Swid is a mother of four and lives in
Ra'anana. She is a
religious feminist. ==References==