# Mathilda Guez > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mathilda_Guez > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mathilda_Guez.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilda_Guez > Source revision: 1279361860 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Israeli politician (1918–1990)}} {{Infobox officeholder |image = Mathilda Gez 1965-11-16.jpg |caption = Guez in 1965 |birth_date = 15 August 1918 |birth_place = [Sousse](/source/Sousse), [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia) |death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|5|3|1918|8|15|df=y}} |death_place = |office1 = Faction represented in the [Knesset](/source/Knesset) |subterm1 = 1965–1968 |suboffice1 = [Rafi](/source/Rafi_(political_party)) |subterm2 = 1968–1969 |suboffice2 = [Labor Party](/source/Israeli_Labor_Party) |subterm3 = 1969–1977 |suboffice3 = [Alignment](/source/Alignment_(political_party)) }} '''Mathilda Guez''' ({{langx|he|מטילדה גז}}; 15 August 1918 – 3 May 1990) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the [Knesset](/source/Knesset) for [Rafi](/source/Rafi_(political_party)) and its successors from 1965 until 1977. ==Biography== Born in [Sousse](/source/Sousse) in [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia), Guez was educated at a French high school. In 1936 she married and moved to [Sfax](/source/Sfax). During [World War II](/source/World_War_II) she was deported along with the rest of the local [Jewish community](/source/Tunisian_Jews). After the family returned to their homes, she became involved in [Zionist](/source/Zionism) activities; in 1948 she became a member of [Youth Aliyah](/source/Youth_Aliyah), and was also president of the Tunisian branch of [WIZO](/source/Women's_International_Zionist_Organization). In 1957 she [emigrated to Israel](/source/aliyah) after meeting [David Ben-Gurion](/source/David_Ben-Gurion) during a trip to Jerusalem, and joined [Mapai](/source/Mapai), working in its Immigrant Absorption department. In 1959 Guez became a member of the [World Jewish Congress](/source/World_Jewish_Congress) directorate.[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=336 Mathilda Guez: Public Activities] Knesset website Along with Ben-Gurion, she was amongst the Mapai members that left to form Rafi in 1965, and was elected to the Knesset on the new party's list later that year. She was re-elected in [1969](/source/1969_Israeli_legislative_election) (by which time Rafi had merged into the [Alignment](/source/Alignment_(political_party))) and [1973](/source/1973_Israeli_legislative_election), before losing her seat in the [1977 elections](/source/1977_Israeli_legislative_election). She died in 1990 at the age of 71. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{MKlink|id=336}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Guez, Mathilda}} Category:1918 births Category:1990 deaths Category:20th-century Tunisian Jews Category:People from Sousse Category:Jewish women politicians Category:Tunisian emigrants to Israel Category:Women members of the Knesset Category:Rafi (political party) politicians Category:Mapai politicians Category:Israeli Labor Party politicians Category:Alignment (Israel) politicians Category:Israeli people of Tunisian-Jewish descent Category:Members of the 6th Knesset (1965–1969) Category:Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974) Category:Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–1977) Category:20th-century Israeli women politicians Category:Burials at South Cemetery in Israel --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mathilda Guez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilda_Guez) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilda_Guez?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.