Tzipora Laskov (; 1904–1989) was an Israeli nurse and politician.

Biography

Born in the

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, Laskov studied to become a nurse. However, she and her husband David were exiled to Siberia by the Soviet government.Jonathan Goldstein (2015) ''Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya'' The couple fled to China, where they established a branch of

Hashomer Hatzair Hashomer Hatzair (, , 'The Young Guard') is a Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary. It was also the name of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party, the ...

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. They later

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Mandate Palestine The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordanwhich had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuriesfollowing the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in Wo ...

in 1928, where Tzipora and found work at a factory.Tzipora Laskov: Public Activity
Knesset In 1929 she began working as a nurse at a

Histadrut Histadrut, fully the New General Workers' Federation () and until 1994 the General Federation of Labour in the Land of Israel (, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center and represents the m ...

hospital in

Ein Harod Ein Harod () was a kibbutz in northern Israel near Mount Gilboa. Founded in 1921, it became the center of Mandatory Israel's kibbutz movement, hosting the headquarters of the largest kibbutz organisation, HaKibbutz HaMeuhad. In 1923 part of the ...

, later working in the HaEmek hospital. She helped establish Mother and Child clinics in

Hadera Hadera (, ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, in the northern Sharon plain, Sharon region, approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along 7 km (5 mi) of ...

and

Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...

, and was a member of the Nurses Organisation and the Working Mothers Organisation. During

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Laskov and husband David volunteered for the

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, in which she helped found the Organisation of Soldiers Wives. She also helped establish an institution for soldiers' children at

Kfar Yehezkel Kfar Yehezkel (, ''lit.'' Yehezkel Village) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, six kilometres southeast of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In the moshav had a population of . History ...

and the Shabtai Levy children's home in Haifa. A member of the

Ahdut HaAvoda Ahdut HaAvoda () was the name used by a series of List of political parties in Israel, political parties in Israel. Ahdut HaAvoda in its first incarnation was led by David Ben-Gurion. It was first established during the period of Mandatory Pales ...

party, she was a member of the Assembly of Representatives, and in

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was elected to the Knesset on the party's list. However, she gave up her seat before being sworn in, and was replaced by

Nahum Nir Nahum Nir-Rafalkes (; 17 March 1884 – 10 July 1968) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. He was the only Speaker of the Knesset not to have been a member of the rul ...

. In 1962 she opened a community clinic for family therapy in Haifa, working there until 1967.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laskov, Tzipora 1904 births 20th-century Israeli Jews Ukrainian Jews Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli nurses Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Mandatory Palestine) 1989 deaths Ahdut HaAvoda politicians Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959) 20th-century Israeli women politicians Immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah