Her maternal grandmother was the sister of Rabbi Meir Shapiro .
Nava Semel was born 1954 in Jaffa , daughter of Yitzhak Artzi , a politician and member of the Knesset , and Mimi ( Margalit ) , a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and Kleineshenau .
Nava Semel 's maternal grandmother was the sister of Rabbi Meir Shapiro .
Nava Semel was born 1954 in Jaffa , daughter of Yitzhak Artzi , a politician and member of the Knesset , and Mimi ( Margalit ) , a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and Kleineshenau .