David Livschitz

David Livschitz was born in 1897 in Russia

Livschitz was born in 1897 in Zhitomir, in the Russian Empire. As a young man he was active in the Dror and HeHalutz youth movements. In 1925 he joined the World Union of Poale Zion and Socialist Zionists.

From 1927 to 1937 he was a leader of Poale Zion in France and edited the party's publications. In 1938 he moved to Mandatory Palestine and became secretary of Mapai in Tel Aviv. In 1944 he joined the party's B Faction, and with it he joined Mapam in 1948.

He entered the Knesset in April 1951, replacing Yitzhak Tabenkin, and was reelected that year for Mapam. In February 1952 he left Mapam after a faction dispute and formed the Independent Ahdut HaAvoda faction with Hannah Lamdan. In January 1954 the faction merged into Mapai.

He was reelected for Mapai in 1955 and sat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, but lost his seat in 1959. He joined Rafi in 1965 and left political life in 1967. He died in 1973 in Tel Aviv.