Tamar Gozansky | |
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תמר גוז'נסקי | |
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| Faction represented in theKnesset | |
| 1990–2003 | Hadash |
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| Born | (1940-10-03)October 3, 1940 (age 84) Petah Tikva,Mandatory Palestine |
Tamar Gozansky (Hebrew:תמר גוז'נסקי, also speltTamar Gozhansky; born October 3, 1940) is an Israeli politician.
Tamar Gozansky was born inPetah Tikva in 1940 to a RussianJewish family. She earned an MSc inEconomics fromLeningrad State University. She later worked as an economist.
Gozansky joinedMaki (the Israeli Communist Party), the major part of theHadash alliance. She entered theKnesset in July 1990 as a replacement for veteran Hadash MKTawfik Toubi and retained her seat in the1992 elections, after which she chaired the Knesset's joint committee on early childhood.[1][2]
She was reelected in 1996, and again chaired the joint committee on early childhood. Following a third re-election in 1999 she became chairwoman of the committee on the rights of the child and the special committee for school dropout rates.
Prior to the2003 election, Gozansky announced that she would not seek re-election, which required a special majority of the party for its veteran representatives in the Knesset.
