Gelfandbein (née Lyubotskaya) Lea Ovseevna (21 January 1944, Moscow) – technician.

Lea Gelfandbein was born into a family of tailors: Ovsei-Zelig Nokhumovich Lyubotsky (b. 1915, Dvinsk – today Daugavpils) and Khava Khaimovna Lyubotskaya (née Surits) (b. 1912, Riga).

She received a secondary education and worked at the Electron factory from 1962 to 1963. In 1963, she became an operator at the Machine-Accounting Station of the Latvian SSR Central Statistical Administration. She studied at the University of Latvia from 1963 to 1965, then worked as a technician at the Computing Centre of the Central Statistical Directorate from 1965 to 1971.

She married Vladimir Yakovlevich Gelfandbein (b. 1944, Kopychyntsi, Ukraine), and in 1965, their daughter Zhanna Vladimirovna Gelfandbein was born in Riga.

In 1971, Lea Gelfandbein was granted permission to emigrate to Israel, where her cousin Aba Blumberg (b. 1928, Riga) was already residing.

Family:

Ovsei-Zelig Nokhumovich Lyubotsky (b. 1915) – father
Khava Khaimovna Lyubotskaya (née Surits) (b. 1912) – mother
Vladimir Yakovlevich Gelfandbein (b. 1944) – husband
Zhanna Vladimirovna Gelfandbein (b. 1965) – daughter
Aba Blumberg (b. 1928, Riga) – cousin