She was born in Dvinsk, a city that was under the control of the Russian Empire at the time of her birth and is now in the territory of Latvia. In 1912 she made Aliya to Palestine with her family. While studying at the Hebrew Gymnasium, she met Moshe Sharett, one of the leaders of the Yishuv who later became the second Israeli prime minister and its first foreign minister, and in 1922 they married.