Hasya Drori ( he, חסיה דרורי, 1899 – 3 June 1976) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

for

Mapai Mapai ( he, מַפָּא"י, an acronym for , ''Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael'', lit. "Workers' Party of the Land of Israel") was a democratic socialist political party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger in ...

between 1949 and 1951.

Biography

Drori was born Hasya Kupfermintz in

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in the

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of the

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(now in

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), and was a member of the Youth of Zion and

HeHalutz HeHalutz or HeChalutz ( he, הֶחָלוּץ, lit. "The Pioneer") was a Jewish youth movement that trained young people for agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel. It became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth moveme ...

youth groups.Hasya Drori: Public Activity and Publications
Knesset She made aliyah to

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

in 1922, and joined Gdud HaAvoda. In 1924 she was amongst the founders of moshav

Kfar Yehezkel Kfar Yehezkel ( he, כְּפַר יְחֶזְקֵאל, ''lit.'' Yehezkel Village) is a moshav ovdim in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, six kilometres southeast of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. I ...

. She became a member of the Working Mothers Organisation, and also joined Mapai. In 1937 she travelled to the

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as an emissary for Mapai and the Histadrut trade union. In 1949 she was elected to the

first Knesset Constituent Assembly elections were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset (Hebrew: כ ...

on the Mapai list and was known as a formidable feminist.Lahav, P (2001
A "Jewish State . . . to Be Known as the State of Israel": Notes on Israeli Legal Historiography
Law and History Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 However, she lost her seat in

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two years later. She later worked in immigrant absorption.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Drori, Hasya 1899 births 1976 deaths People from Gomel People from Gomelsky Uyezd Jews from the Russian Empire Belarusian Jews Soviet Jews Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Jews in Mandatory Palestine Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Mapai politicians Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951) Women members of the Knesset Israeli trade unionists Israeli feminists Jewish feminists 20th-century Israeli women politicians Jewish women politicians