Dvora Netzer

Israeli politician (1897–1989)

1949–1965Mapai1965–1968Alignment1968–1969Labor Party1969Alignment Personal detailsBorn1 May 1897
Mena, Russian EmpireDied4 January 1989 (aged 91)

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 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.