Dvora Netzer
Dvora Netzer | |
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Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1949–1965 | Mapai |
1965–1968 | Alignment |
1968–1969 | Labor Party |
1969 | Alignment |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 May 1897 Mena, Russian Empire |
Died | 4 January 1989 (aged 91) |
Dvora Netzer (Hebrew: דבורה נצר, 1 May 1897 – 4 January 1989) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai, the Labor Party and the Alignment between 1949 and 1969.
Biography
[edit]Born Dvora Nosovistzky in Mena in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Netzer was a member of HeHalutz and Youth of Zion youth movements, and later joined the Zionist Socialist Workers Party.
In 1925, she made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where she worked as a teacher, becoming headmistress of a school for working youths, a job she held between 1925 and 1949.[1] In 1933 she founded the Working Mothers Organisation in Tel Aviv, serving as its secretary until 1967.[1] She was also a member of the Na'amat central committee and the Women Workers Council.[1]
A member of Ahdut HaAvoda and later Mapai, she was a member of Mapai's central committee. In 1949, she was elected to the first Knesset on the party's list. She was re-elected in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965. She retired from political life during the 1969 elections.
Between 1965 and 1969, she served as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset.[2] In this position, in November 1968, Netzer was formally selected as Acting Speaker of the Knesset and de facto served as Acting President of the State for a period of five days (17–21 November).[3]
Netzer died in 1989 and was buried in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv. She had two children: Colonel Moshe Netzer and Prof. Rina Shapiro.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Devorah Netzer: Public Activities Knesset website
- ^ Devorah Netzer: Knesset Activities Knesset website
- ^ Shavit Ben-Arie, Havrot HaKnesset, 2011 (Hebrew)
External links
[edit]- Dvora Netzer on the Knesset website
- 1897 births
- 1989 deaths
- People from Chernihiv Oblast
- Ukrainian Jews
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Ahdut HaAvoda politicians
- Mapai politicians
- Alignment (Israel) politicians
- Israeli Labor Party politicians
- Women members of the Knesset
- National University of Kharkiv alumni
- Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951)
- Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951–1955)
- Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959)
- Members of the 4th Knesset (1959–1961)
- Members of the 5th Knesset (1961–1965)
- Members of the 6th Knesset (1965–1969)
- 20th-century Israeli women politicians
- Burials at Trumpeldor Cemetery
- Immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah