Tzipora Laskov

Tzipora Laskov was born in 1904 in Ukraine

Laskov was born in Ukraine to Rivka and Feivish Mordror. She trained as a nurse and met her husband, David Laskov. The couple fled to China and reached Harbin, then moved to the Land of Israel in 1928.

In 1929 she began working as a nurse at a Histadrut hospital in Ein Harod. She was active in the Nurses Organization and the Working Mothers Organization. In 1932 she helped set up the first Mother and Child clinics in Hadera and Haifa.

During World War II she helped found the Organization of Soldiers' Wives. In 1948 she became the northern district supervisor for Kupat Holim Clalit. She also helped found an institution for soldiers' children at Kfar Yehezkel and a children's home in Haifa named for Shabtai Levy.

In 1955 she was elected to the third Knesset on the Ahdut HaAvoda list. She gave up her seat before being sworn in, and Nahum Nir replaced her. In 1962 she opened a community clinic for family therapy in Haifa.

She died in Haifa in 1989 and was buried next to her husband. A public garden in Haifa is named for the couple.