Sarah Kafrit
Template:Infobox member of the Knesset
Sarah Kafrit (Template:Lang-be; Template:Lang-he, 26 July 1900 – 1 June 1983) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1951 and 1959.
Biography
Born in Minsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Kafrit was educated at a local high school. Having joined Poale Zion in her home town, she made aliyah to Palestine in 1920. After studying at a Kindergarten Seminary in Tel Aviv. She worked as a nursery teacher at Mikveh Israel and Nahalal. In 1927 she was amongst the founders of moshav Kfar Yehoshua, and was later secretary of the Moshavim Movement. She also became a member of the secretariat of Women's Councils, and travelled aboard as an emissary (to the United States in 1946, and South Africa in 1958).
A member of the Mapai central committee, she was a member of the Assembly of Representatives. She was placed thirtieth on the party's list for the 1951 Knesset elections,[1] and entered the legislature as Mapai won 45 seats. She was re-elected in 1955 after being placed 35th on the Mapai list,[2] but lost her seat in the 1959 elections.
She died in 1983 at the age of 82.
References
- ^ Mapai list 1951 Israel Democracy Institute
- ^ Mapai list 1955 Israel Democracy Institute
External links
- Sarah Kafrit on the Knesset website
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- 1900 births
- 1983 deaths
- Imperial Russian Jews
- Israeli educators
- Israeli Jews
- Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
- Women Members of the Knesset
- Mapai politicians
- Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Mandatory Palestine)
- Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951–55)
- Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–59)
- People from Minsk
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- 20th-century women politicians