 In 1959, she was appointed Head of the National Center for Demography and served on the Prime Minister's Commission on Social Policy and as Vice-President of the International Council on Social Welfare and the International Commission on the Status of Women.In 1969 she was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list and served for one term.Following her term in the Knesset, she founded and chaired the Jerusalem Council for the Welfare of Children and then served for 25 years as the Israel Representative of the United Nations Commission for Refugees.