Galperina (née Smargon) Zelda Yakovlevna (born 17 December 1956, Daugavpils, Latvia) – teacher.

Zelda Galperina was born into the family of a labourer, Yakov Nisonovich Smargon (born 1927, Dvinsk – now Daugavpils), and a process engineer, Frida Zalamanovna Smargon (née Gurvich) (born 1935, Dvinsk).

She graduated from Daugavpils Secondary School No. 11 (1963–1973), and then from the Faculty of Philology at the Latvian State University (1973–1978). From 1978 to 1979, she was a homemaker.

In her marriage to Elya Vulfovich Galperin (born 1948, Riga), there were no children.

In 1979, Zelda Galperina received permission to emigrate to Israel, where members of her extended family had already settled: since 1971, her paternal uncle, Israel Nisonovich Smargon (born 1925, Dvinsk), and since 1977, her husband’s aunt (his father’s sister), Khanna Shevelevna Galperina (born 1917, Vladimir).

Family:

Yakov Nisonovich Smargon (born 1927) – father
Frida Zalamanovna Smargon (née Gurvich) (born 1935) – mother
Alexander Yakovlevich Smargon (born 1962, Daugavpils) – brother
Israel Nisonovich Smargon (born 1925) – paternal uncle
Elya Vulfovich Galperin (born 1948) – husband
Khanna Shevelevna Galperina (born 1917) – husband’s aunt