Dvora Netzer
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.
Dvora Netzer | |
|---|---|
 Netzer in 1966 | |
| 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) |
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 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
- Devorah Netzer: Public Activities Knesset website
- Devorah Netzer: Knesset Activities Knesset website
- Shavit Ben-Arie, Havrot HaKnesset, 2011 (Hebrew)
