Hannah Lamdan - Biography

Hannah Lamdan (born Hannah Lerner on 5 January 1905, died 10 April 1995) was a Serbia-born Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for several left-wing parties between 1949 and 1965.

Biography

Born in Serbia, Lamdan attended a Hebrew language primary school and a Russian language high school before making aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1926. A member of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, she joined the Ahdut HaAvoda political party, and was an activist for the Histadrut trade union. She became a member of the Tel Aviv workers council, and headed the Women Workers department between 1937 and 1940.

Between 1944 and 1949 she was a member of the Women Workers Council's secretariat.

In 1948 she joined Mapam, and the following year was elected to first Knesset on its list. She was re-elected in 1951, but on 20 January 1953, she and David Livschitz broke away from the party to form the Faction independent of Ahdut HaAvoda (several other Mapam MKs had broken away to re-establish Ahdut HaAvoda). On 13 January 1954 Lamdan and Livschitz joined Mapai.

Although she lost her seat in the 1955 elections, Lamdan returned to the Knesset on 31 July 1957 as a replacement for Ehud Avriel, who had resigned as an MK to become an ambassador. She retained her seat in the 1959 elections, but lost it again in 1961. However, she returned again as a replacement for the deceased Giora Yoseftal on 23 August 1962.

On 14 July 1965 she was amongst the eight MKs to leave Mapai, led by David Ben-Gurion, to establish Rafi. She lost her seat in the elections later that year.

She died in Holon on 10 April 1995.

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