Esther Herlitz is a former Israel

Israel

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i diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

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 for the Alignment

Alignment (political party)

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 between 1973 and 1977.

Biography

Born in Berlin

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 in Germany

Germany

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 in 1921, Herlitz made aliyah

Aliyah

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 to Mandate Palestine in 1933. She attended high school in Jerusalem, and studied at a teachers seminary and the Foreign Service school.

In 1948 she began working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)

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. She served as consul to New York

New York

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 between 1955 and 1958, and as ambassador to Denmark

Denmark

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 from 1966 until 1971, as well as on several missions to the United Nations

United Nations

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Herlitz was also a member of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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 City Council, and chaired its culture committee between 1960 and 1964. In 1972 she founded the Centre for Volunteer Services, and the following year was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. She lost her seat in the 1977 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1977

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, but returned to the Knesset on 14 August 1979 as a replacement for the deceased Yehoshua Rabinovitz

Yehoshua Rabinovitz

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. She lost her seat again in the 1981 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1981

Elections for the tenth Knesset were held in Israel on 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres's Alignment, Menachem Begin's Likud won by just one seat...

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Between 1977 and 1981 she served as secretary of the Tel Aviv branch of Na'amat

Na'amat

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, and was also on the organisation's central committee.

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