Jenia Tversky

Jenia Tversky
Date of birth 16 August 1904
Place of birth Baranovichi, Russian Empire
Year of aliyah 1923
Date of death 9 April 1964 (aged 59)
Knessets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Faction represented in Knesset
1951–1955 Mapai
1959–1961 Mapai
1963–1965 Mapai

Jenia Tversky (Hebrew: ז'ניה טברסקי‎; Russian: Женя Тверски, 16 August 1904 – 9 April 1964) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai.

Biography

Born Jenia Ginsburg in 1904 in the Baranovichi in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus), Tversky studied at the University of Warsaw and at a Social Work school in Berlin. In 1923 she made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where she became a pioneer of social services. Between 1932 and 1942 she served as director of the Jewish community's social services in Haifa, before working as head of the Social Services Department of the Neighbourhood Committee of Jerusalem between 1942 and 1948. She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Histadrut trade union, and was sent to the Holocaust survivors' camps as an emissary in 1945.

A member of Mapai, she was on the party's list for the 1949 Knesset elections, but missed out on a seat. However, she entered the Knesset on 5 February 1951 as a replacement for Heshel Frumkin.[1] She retained her seat in the July 1951 elections, but lost it 1955. She returned on 6 July 1959 as a replacement for Shlomo Hillel.[2] She retained her seat in the November 1959 elections, but lost it for a second time in the 1961 elections. She re-entered the Knesset again on 24 November 1963 after the death of Meir Argov.[3] She died on 6 April the following year, and was replaced by Aharon Yadlin.[3]

Her son is the psychologist Amos Tversky.

References

  1. ↑ Knesset Members in the First Knesset Knesset website
  2. ↑ Knesset Members in the Third Knesset Knesset website
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Knesset Members in the Fifth Knesset Knesset website

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