Education
Born Yevgenia Gintsburg (Russian: Евгения Гинцбург) in 1904 in Baranovichi in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus), Tversky studied at the University of Warsaw and at a Social Work school in Berlin.
Born Yevgenia Gintsburg (Russian: Евгения Гинцбург) in 1904 in Baranovichi in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus), Tversky studied at the University of Warsaw and at a Social Work school in Berlin.
In 1923, she made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where she became a pioneer of social services. Between 1932 and 1942 she served as director of the Jewish community"s social services in Haifa, before working as head of the Social Services Department of the Neighbourhood Committee of Jerusalem between 1942 and 1948. However, she entered the Knesset on 5 February 1951 as a replacement for Heshel Frumkin.
However, she returned to the Knesset on 6 July 1959 as a replacement for Shlomo Hillel.
However, she re-entered the Knesset again on 24 November 1963 after the death of Meir Argov. She died on 6 April the following year, and was replaced by Aharon Yadlin.
Her son was the psychologist Amos Tversky.
She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Histadrut trade union, and was sent to the Holocaust survivors" camps as an emissary in 1945.