Career
In 1925 she made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where she worked as a teacher, becoming headmistress of a school for working youths, a job she held between 1925 and 1949. In 1933 she founded the Working Mothers Organisation in Tel Aviv, serving as its secretary until 1967. In 1949 she was elected to the first Knesset on the party"s list.
She was re-elected in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965.
She retired from political life during the 1969 elections. Between 1965 and 1969 she served as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset.
In this position, in November 1968 Netzer was formally selected as Acting Speaker of the Knesset and de facto served as Acting President of the State for a period of five days (17–21 November). Netzer died in 1989 and was buried in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
She had two children: Colonel Moshe Netzer and Professor
Rina Shapiro.