| Shoshana Parsitz | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 16 November 1892 |
| Place of birth | Kiev, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1925 |
| Date of death | 22 March 1969 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3 |
| Party | General Zionists |
Shoshana Parsitz (Hebrew: שושנה פרסיץ, née Zlatopolsky, November 1892 – 22 March 1969) was a Zionist activist, educator and Israeli politician.
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Zlatopolsky was born in 1892 in Kiev in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), the daughter of Hillel Zlatopolsky, philanthropist and a founder of Keren Hayesod.[1] In 1909 She became active in “Tarbut” ("Culture"), an organization for the dissemination of Hebrew culture in the Diaspora and in 1917 she founded the publication “Omanut” ("Art", in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) with her husband, Itzhak-Yosef Zelikovich-Parsitz. In 1920 she served as a delegate to the Zionist Congress in London. She studied in the universities of Moscow and Paris and received her degree in literature from the Sorbonne.
In 1925 she immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine. From 1926 to 1935 she was a member of the Tel Aviv City Council and head of the Education Department of the Municipality and a member of the education Committee of the Zionist Federation and member of the Education Department of the Vaad Leumi. She was the chairwoman of the Supervisory Committee of the General School System and of the General Zionists Women’s Organization from 1948 to 1954.
She was elected to the first, second and third Knessets for the General Zionists and was chairwoman of the Education and Culture Committee.
She died in 1969. Her daughter Yemima Milo was a theater actress, director and acting teacher and one of the founders of the Cameri Theater. Another daughter, Shulamit, married Gershom Schocken, politician and editor of the Haaretz newspaper.
In 1968, Parsitz was awarded the Israel Prize, in education.[2]