Tamar Gozansky is a legendary Israeli-Jewish politician, economist, and communist activist. She served as a Member of the Knesset (MK) from 1990 to 2003, representing the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash).
Gozansky is regarded as one of the most distinguished legislators in Israel’s modern history. She is a core leader of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki) and was the first woman to chair the Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee. Her legislative achievements significantly improved the lives of marginalized groups in Israel, most notably through her role in passing the landmark Children’s Rights Act. As an economist, she has authored deep analyses of Israel’s capitalist structure and its dependency on occupation policies, revealing the symbiotic relationship between social exploitation and military colonialism.
She has consistently advocated for the Palestinian right to self-determination, maintaining that there can be no true democracy in Israel without Palestinian independence. Between 2023 and 2026, despite her advanced age, she remains a moral pillar in Israeli anti-war rallies. She publicly denounces collective punishment in Gaza and argues that the Israeli government uses “national security” as a pretext to obscure its exclusionary narratives. She signed several open letters or statements, including “The starvation of Gaza is shameful. Crippling sanctions on Israel are needed.”