Shulamith Hareven

Shulamith Hareven, born Ryftin in Warsaw on 14 February 1930, the daughter of a lawyer and a schoolteacher, arrived in Palestine with her parents in 1940 and grew up in Jerusalem. At seventeen she joined the Haganah and served as a combat nurse in the battles of Jerusalem. She was among the group that founded the army radio and opened its broadcasts in 1950, served as an officer, then became a war correspondent. The first woman elected to the Academy of the Hebrew Language, in 1979, and an activist with Peace Now, she died in Jerusalem on 25 November 2003.

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• NovelCity of Many Daysעיר ימים רביםShulamith Hareven · 1972Literature