23 Facts About Tzippora Sharett

Tzippora Sharett was the wife of the second prime minister of Israel, Moshe Sharett.

Tzippora Sharett was born in Dvinsk, a city that was under the control of the Russian Empire at the time of her birth and is Daugavpils, Latvia.

Tzippora Sharett supported her husband in all his diplomatic and political activities until his death in 1965.

Tzippora Sharett's father was one of the "Lovers of Zion", and as a child she did not receive a primary education.

Tzippora Sharett made Aliyah to Palestine in 1912 with almost no knowledge of the Hebrew language.

Tzippora Sharett's family settled in Tel Aviv-Yafo, and Tzippora began her studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium.

Tzippora Sharett knew Dov Hoz and Eliyahu Golomb, Sharett's best friends, and her closeness to the trio made her a partner in the political and diplomatic struggle for the establishment of the State of Israel from the dawn of her youth.

Meirov and Tzippora Sharett first got closer during a trip of the gymnasium for the students, on Passover 1913 in Hebron.

Tzippora Sharett was one of the members of the, which engaged in agricultural work and contracting work, including the drying of the Jordan Valley' Swamp and the planting of eucalyptus trees.

Tzippora Sharett waited another year before asking for the hand of Zippora, who had been his girlfriend since his youth.

Tzippora Sharett ran the farm in Nahalat Yehuda and was active in the Tel Aviv Workers' Council.

Life alongside a Tzippora Sharett did not end up with a symbolic role of hosting.

In October 1942, in the midst of World War II, Tzippora Sharett traveled to Tehran on a mission from the Jewish Agency and the Youth Aliyah in order to help rescue about 900 orphaned Jewish children from Poland who wandered in Eastern Europe fleeing the horrors of war.

Tzippora Sharett arrived in Tehran for the purpose of running the orphanage, called the "Jewish Child's House", together with a group of who came with the older Jewish refugees.

In January 1947, two months after his release from detention in Latrun, Tzippora Sharett traveled for a lengthy period of time to the United States as part of his position in the Jewish Agency's Diplomatic Department.

Tzippora Sharett was later joined by his wife and their children, Haim and Yael.

In 1947, Tzippora Sharett added to her volunteer activities her role as a member of the board of directors of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Tzippora Sharett held this position from the day she was appointed until the day she died in 1973.

Unlike her predecessor as the wife of the Prime Minister of Israel, Paula Ben-Gurion, Tzippora Sharett was involved from a fairly early stage in public and volunteer activity, a work that continued even when she was the wife of the Prime Minister.

On January 26,1954, her husband Moshe Sharett was elected prime minister and Tzippora began serving as the prime minister's wife.

Tzippora Sharett accompanied him to important meetings in the Knesset and Mapai Party and assisted him in writing speeches and in fact served as his support person.

For example, in March 1954, Tzippora Sharett was asked to deliver an obituary to Baron Edmond James de Rothschild in the Knesset plenum.

Tzippora Sharett was buried next to her husband in Trumpeldor Cemetery.