Shulamith Hareven
שולמית הראבן
Shulamith Hareven (1930-2003) was born in Warsaw, Poland. She came to pre-state Israel in 1940 and lived in Jerusalem. She served in the Haganah underground, and was a combat-medic in the 1947-48 siege of Jerusalem. Hareven was one of the founders of the IDF broadcasts and an Officer in Command/Operations in the IDF. During the early 1950s, she worked in transit camps with refugees from Arab countries and served as a war correspondent during the War of Attrition and Yom Kippur War. Hareven was the first woman elected to be a member of the Hebrew Language Academy. She was a longtime member of the spokesteam of the Peace Now movement, and during the first Intifada she entered Arab refugee camps and reported to the Israeli press. She was also a columnist on current social, cultural and political events. In 1995, the French magazine, L’Express, named Shulamith Hareven one of the 100 women “who move the world.” Hareven wrote in variety of genres, and her works have been translated into 21 languages.