Jenia Tversky

Jenia Tversky (Hebrew: זֶ׳נִיָה טְבֶרְסְקִי, 16 August 1904 – 9 April 1964) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai.

Born Genia Gintsburg (Russian: Геня 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.

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.

Her son was the psychologist Amos Tversky (1937–1996), co-author (with Daniel Kahneman) of prospect theory.