Zita Linker (; 1 March 1917 – 26 January 2009) was an Israeli politician who briefly served as a member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( , ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Israel. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supe ...

for

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in 1977.

Biography

Born in

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, Linker attended high school in her home city, and university in

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. She

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in 1934. She joined the

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, which merged into the

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in 1959. She became a member of the Board of Liberal Women, and of the party's central committee and executive council, as well as serving as a delegate to various Zionist Congresses. In 1973 she was on the

list (an alliance of the Liberal Party,

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and several other right-wing parties) for the Knesset elections that year. Although she failed to win a seat, she entered the Knesset on 21 January 1977 as a replacement for

Shmuel Tamir Shmuel Moshe Tamir (; born Shmuel Katznelson; 10 March 1923 – 29 June 1987) was a prominent Israeli independence fighter, lawyer, and Knesset member. After a successful career fighting the British, he entered the Knesset from 1965 to 1980, ri ...

,Knesset Members of the Eighth Knesset
Knesset website who had resigned his seat after leaving Likud. However, Linker lost her seat in the May 1977 elections. She died in 2009 at the age of 91.

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