Marcia Freedman, who was the first American-born woman to serve in the Israeli Parliament, known as the Knesset, and who helped lead the feminist movement in Israel in the 1970s, died on Sept.
21 at her home in South Berkeley, Calif. She was 83. She had been diagnosed with renal and heart disease, he daughter, Jennifer Freedman, said in confirming the death.
Ms. Freedman, who was born in New Jersey, had been pursuing her doctorate in philosophy at Stanford when, in 1967, she received an offer to spend a year in Israel teaching at Haifa University.
She became part of Israel’s nascent feminist movement and ended up staying 14 years, although she returned often after that for extended periods.