Pukan (née Goldblat) Mersara Isaakovna (1940, Rauna) — music educator.

Mersara Pukan was born into the family of Noima Goldblat (née Amitan) (1909, Luga) and Itskhok Goldblat (1900–1947). During the war she was evacuated to Tyumen; in 1947 she was re-evacuated to Riga.

In 1963 she graduated from the Jazeps Mediņš Riga Music College with a qualification as a singing teacher. In 1963–65 she was a singing teacher at Riga Secondary School No. 53. In 1965–68 she worked as a nurse-educator at Nursery No. 25. From 1968 she was a music instructor at Childcare Institution No. 210 in Riga.

In her marriage to Izy Pukan (1932, Brno), children were born: Ariel Pukan (1964, Riga), Rina Pukan (1966, Riga), and Geula Pukan (1970, Riga). In 1971 Mersara Pukan and her family received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Izy Pukan (1932, Brno) — husband
Ariel Pukan (1964, Riga) — son
Rina Pukan (1966, Riga) — daughter
Geula Pukan (1970, Riga) — daughter
Noima Goldblat (née Amitan) (1909, Luga) — mother
Itskhok Goldblat (1900–1947) — father
Girsh Goldblat (1942, Tyumen Region) — brother
Itskhok Goldblat (1947, Riga) — brother
Abram Amitan (1909, Riga) — maternal uncle
Eyma Amitan (1914, Riga) — maternal uncle