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Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (Hebrew: רחל ינאית בן-צבי ; May 1886 – 16 November 1979) was an Israeli author and educator, and a leading Labor Zionist. Ben-Zvi was the wife of the second President of Israel , Yitzhak Ben-Zvi .
Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi was the second First Lady of Israel, wife to President Yizhak Ben-Zvi. Before and after Ben-Zvi’s tenure, she was active in the labor movement in Palestine and Israel and in the independence movement, as well as a prolific writer and recorder of her experiences in Erez Israel.
(1886 - 1979) Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi was born in the Ukraine. Even before moving to Eretz Yisrael, she aligned herself with the labor movement and worked to establish chapters of Poalei Zion in Russia. She was educated in Russia and later in France, studying agronomy.
9 de jun. de 2020 · It was the events of the Farhud – the horrific massacre in Baghdad on June 1 st, 1941, in which 179 members of the Jewish community were murdered – that convinced Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi that time was running out for the Jews of the Arab world.
- Early Life
- New Name, New Home
- Political Involvement
- First Lady of The State of Israel
Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi (née Golda Lishansky) was born during the Shavuot Pronounced: shah-voo-OTE (oo as in boot), also shah-VOO-us, Origin: Hebrew, the holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, falls in the Hebrew month Sivan, which usually coincides with May or June. festival into a warm Hasidic Pronounced: khah-SID-ik, Origin: He...
From the moment she arrived she had a feeling of déjà-vu, that she had been born here and belonged to Erez Israel. There she Hebraicized her name to Rahel Yanait. This symbolic act, deriving from her admiration for King Alexander Yannai (c. 126–76 b. c. e.) who enlarged the boundaries of Israel in the Second Temple era, also honored her father Jona...
Yanait was not a professed feminist. Looking back she stressed that she never had a special interest in “suffragism.” She believed that talented women could rise to outstanding achievements and that they should demand equal work opportunity, equal remuneration and the opportunity to learn a profession or vocation, but not through a suffragist movem...
When her husband began his tenure as the second president of the State of Israel (1952–1963) she took an active role as First Lady. This included the design of the unique character of the President’s House, its easy accessibility and its special status among the new immigrants of multiple ethnic groups who had recently immigrated to Israel from man...
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Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi was a leading woman activist in the Yishuv (the pre- state Jewish community of Palestine/Eretz Israel) and in the early years of the State of Israel.
At the National Library of Israel, you can find information on Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi (1886-1979) and view a variety of items related to the topic such as manuscripts, books, archives, photographs and more.
