Nava Arad ( he, נאוה ארד; 4 December 1938 – 21 February 2022) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the

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between 1981 and 1992, and again from 1995 until 1996.

Life and career

Born in Kibbutz Hulda in

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, Arad served as a welfare sergeant in Nahal brigade during her

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in the

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.Nava Arad: Particulars
Knesset website She gained a BA from the Beit Berl Teachers College, another bachelor's degree in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA in social administration and social policy from the

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. She worked as a teacher and social worker, and became national secretary of the Social Workers Union. She chaired the Committee for Income Maintenance in the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Society and Welfare during

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's second spell as Prime Minister, as well as the Workers' Faction in the

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council. She was also a member of the Histadrut central committee, secretary general of

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, and vice-president and

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representative of

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Women. In

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she was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. She was re-elected in

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and

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, but lost her seat in the 1992 elections. She returned to the Knesset on 5 November 1995 as a replacement for the assassinated Rabin, but on 7 March the following year left the Labor Party to sit as an

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. For the May 1996 elections she founded the Gil list, a pensioner's party, but it failed to cross the electoral threshold, and she lost her seat. She also headed the party in the 1999 elections, but it again failed to win a seat. Arad died on 21 February 2022, at the age of 83.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arad, Nava 1938 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Israeli women politicians People from Hulda, Israel Jews in Mandatory Palestine Israeli schoolteachers Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare alumni Alumni of the University of London Israeli social workers Israeli trade unionists Women members of the Knesset Leaders of political parties in Israel Alignment (Israel) politicians Israeli Labor Party politicians Members of the 10th Knesset (1981–1984) Members of the 11th Knesset (1984–1988) Members of the 12th Knesset (1988–1992) Members of the 13th Knesset (1992–1996)