Netta was born and raised in Tel Aviv.  At the age of fifteen, she started to take an active part in the demonstrations against the wall in the West Bank. The brutal violence she witnessed there radicalized her.  At the age of sixteen, she was an organizer for an alternative education project that politically empowered youth and exposed them to radical ways of activism. It was in this project where the idea of the 2008 Shministim letter was born, with two other future members of the Shministim 2008, Sahar Vardi and Raz Bar David-Varon. In 2009 she was sent to jail for 20 days after refusing to serve in the Israeli army.  Since her release, she has been involved in immigrant and refugees struggles as well as anti-occupation actions.

This is the statement she read before going to jail:

I am not willing to be part of an organization committing war crimes, taking the lives of thousands of innocent civilians, an organization that, in the name of humanism and democracy, forces me and my peers to sacrifise a period of our lives, and our lives themselves, for false calm, for no calm shall come to pass until Israel decides to give up the policy of war and turn towards peace. Therefore, as a small step towards stopping the cycle of bloodshed, I hereby refuse to enlist in the military.