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Ruth Haktin

Ruth Haktin was an Israeli politician and trade unionist who served in the Knesset for Ahdut HaAvoda from 1955 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1969.

1901 to 1991Knesset member for Ahdut HaAvodaDeputy speaker of the KnessetMarital property legislation

Born: 18 December 1901, Sosnytsia
Died: 14 July 1991, Ein Harod
Occupation: politician, trade unionist
Party: Labor Unity

Ruth Haktin was born in 1901 in Sosnytsia

Ruth Haktin was born in 1901 in Sosnytsia, in the Russian Empire. She went to high school, worked as a clerk and was active in the Socialist Zionist Party.

In 1923 she moved to the Land of Israel and joined kibbutz Tel Yosef. After the split in the kibbutz movement in 1952, she moved to Ein Harod Meuhad.

After World War II she worked with Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps in Europe. She helped found Mapai in 1930 and Mapam in 1948, and in 1954 joined those who rebuilt Ahdut HaAvoda. She sat on the Na'amat central committee and the Histadrut central auditing committee.

She entered the Knesset in 1955, lost her seat in 1959 and returned in 1960 in place of Yigal Allon. She served as a deputy speaker of the Knesset and promoted laws on marital property and against firing pregnant women. Her Knesset service ended in 1969.

She published a memoir in 1990. She died in 1991 and was buried in kibbutz Hulata beside her grandson Amiram, who fell in the Yom Kippur War.