Dvora Netzer

Dvora Netzer
Date of birth	1 May 1897
Place of birth	Mena, Russian Empire
Year of aliyah	1925
Date of death	4 January 1989 (aged 91)
Knessets	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Party	Alignment (1965-1968, 1969)
Former parties	Mapai (1949-1965) Labor Party (1968-1969)

Netzer's tomb alongside her husband's.

Dvora Netzer (Hebrew: דבורה נצר‎, born Dvora Nosovistzky on 1 May 1897, died 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

Born 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 Mandate 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.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Devorah Netzer: Public Activities Knesset website
2. ^ Devorah Netzer: Knesset Activities Knesset website
3. ^ שביט בן-אריה, חברות הכנסת: נשים מובילות בישראל, תשע"א-2011

External links

• Dvora Netzer Knesset website

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Name	Netzer, Dvora
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Date of birth	1 May 1897
Place of birth	Mena, Russian Empire
Date of death	4 January 1989
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