Zita Linker

Zita Linker was born in 1917 in Vienna

Zita Linker was born in Vienna on 1 March 1917 to Jakob and Sabina Kaufmann. She went to high school in Vienna and studied at a university in London. In 1934 she moved to Mandatory Palestine with her parents, as Nazi influence grew in Austria.

She worked as a volunteer in the General Zionists for many years, together with Sara Doron. When the party merged into the Liberal Party, she was among its first members. She sat on the party's central committee and council, represented it at Zionist Congresses, and was elected chair of the Liberal Midrasha in Tel Aviv.

In the 1973 elections she was on the Likud list as the women's representative of the Liberal Party but did not win a seat. She entered the Knesset on 21 January 1977, replacing Shmuel Tamir after he resigned. She lost her seat in the May 1977 elections.

She was also active in WIZO and in helping new immigrants. In 1991 she was named an honored citizen of Tel Aviv-Yafo. She died on 26 January 2009 and had 2 children, including the physician Eli Alon.