Sarah Kafrit

Sarah Kafrit
Date of birth 26 July 1900
Place of birth Minsk, Russian Empire
Year of aliyah 1920
Date of death 1 June 1983(1983-06-01) (aged 82)
Knessets 2, 3
Faction represented in Knesset
1951–1959 Mapai

Sarah Kafrit (Belarusian: Сара Кафрыт; Hebrew: שרה כפרית‎‎, born 26 July 1900, died 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, and was later elected to the Knesset on the party's list in 1951. She was re-elected in 1955, but lost her seat in the 1959 elections.

She died in 1983 at the age of 82.

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