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Tamar Gozansky
Israeli communist politician
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Biography
Tamar Gozansky was born in Petah Tikva in 1940 to a Russian Jewish family. She earned an MSc in Economics from Leningrad State University. She later worked as an economist.[1][2]
Political career
Gozansky joined the Communist Party of Israel, the major part of the Hadash alliance. She entered the Knesset in July 1990 as a replacement for veteran Hadash MK Tawfik Toubi and retained her seat in the 1992 elections, after which she chaired the Knesset's joint committee on early childhood.[3][4]
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.[2][5][6]
Prior to the 2003 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.[7][6]
Works
Books[8][9]
- Economic Independence – How?: Summaries of Israel’s Economic Development 1948–1968. Tel Aviv: Iyun, 1969.
- What is Communism? (Hebrew translation by Gozansky). Tel Aviv: Iyun, 1976.
- The Development of Capitalism in Palestine. Haifa: University Publishing Projects, 1986.
- Bread and Work: The Israeli Working Class – Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Haifa: Pardes, 2013.
- Between Dispossession and Exploitation: Arab Wage-Earners – Conditions and Struggles. Haifa: Pardes, 2014.
- Mizrahi Communists: The Campaign Against Ethnic Discrimination and for the Right to Housing. Haifa: Pardes, 2018.
Edited volumes
- Arise, ye Workers from your Slumber – Life and Collected Works of Eliyahu (Alyosha) Gozansky (1914–1948). Haifa: Pardes, 2009.
- Against the Mainstream! The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) 1919–2008: Articles and Posters (Co-editor with Dr. Angelika Timm). Tel Aviv: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2009.
Personal life
Gozansky was married to Yoram Gozansky, a leader in the Communist Party of Israel from 1961 until his death in 2025.[10][11] She has 2 children: Eli, a computer expert and Dr. Yuval Gozansky, a scholar of children's media and Chair of the Communications Department at Sapir Academic College.[12] She resides in Bat Yam.[13][14]
