Miriam Glazer-Ta'asa

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Miriam Glazer-Ta’asa (born 11 August 1929) is an Israeli former politician who served in the Knesset for Likud from 1981 to 1988 and as Deputy Minister of Education and Culture from 1981 to 1984.

She was born in Yemen to a Mizrahi Jewish family and moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, growing up in Tel Aviv. She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (MA). She joined the Irgun in 1945, later becoming an officer, and served in the IDF after independence. She worked as headteacher of the Johanna Jabotinsky High School in Be’er Ya’akov from 1951 to 1980 and taught at the Levinsky Teachers’ Seminary from 1978 to 1980.

In 1981, she was elected to the Knesset on the Likud list and was appointed Deputy Minister of Education and Culture. She was re-elected in 1984, became chairwoman of the Immigration and Absorption Committee, but was not reappointed as deputy minister. She lost her seat in the 1988 elections. She married Chaim Glazer in 1955; they had three sons, and he died in 2009.