Yehudit Simhonit
Yehudit Simhonit | |
|---|---|
 Simhonit in 1941 | |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1949–1951 | Mapai |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 January 1902 |
| Died | 5 December 1991 (aged 89) |
Yehudit Simhonit (sometimes Simhoni;[a] Hebrew: יהודית שמחונית; 24 January 1902 – 5 December 1991) was a Zionist activist and politician.
Biography
Simhonit was born in Nahar-Tov, an agricultural settlement in the Kherson Oblast of the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), and attended an agricultural high school.[1] In 1917 she joined the Zionist Student Youth Federation.[1]
In 1921 she and her husband Mordechai Simhoni emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, and settled in Nahalal, the newly established first moshav.[1] In 1927 she became a member of the Union of Women Workers.[1] She moved to kibbutz Tel Yosef in 1931, and moved again to Geva in 1943.[1] A member of Mapai, she represented the party in the fourth Assembly of Representatives.[1]
In 1949 she was elected to the first Knesset on the Mapai list.[1] However, she resigned from the Knesset on 5 February 1951 and was replaced by Herzl Berger.[2]
She later worked as a member of the Histadrut's co-ordinating committee and chief cultural and welfare officer of the IDF's Women's Corps.[1] Between 1960 and 1965 she served as head of the Histadrut's International Relations Department.[1]
In 1965 she left Mapai and was a founding member of David Ben-Gurion's new Rafi party, and was amongst its leadership until the party was dissolved in 1968.[1] She died in 1991.[1]
Her son Major General Asaf Simhoni was killed in a plane crash at the end of the Sinai War. Her grandson, Avner Simhoni, was killed in 1968 when a mine exploded in the Gulf of Suez during the military operations in the War of Attrition.[3]
Note
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Yehudit Simhoni". Knesset.
- ^ Knesset Members in the First Knesset Knesset
- ^ "סמל שמחוני, אבנר". Izkor; The State of Israel, Ministry of Defense. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
External links
- Yehudit Simhonit on the Knesset website
