Tzippora Sharett

Tzippora Sharett (; ; 12 August 1896 – 30 September 1973) was the wife of the second prime minister of Israel, Moshe Sharett. She was born in Dvinsk, a city that was under the control of the Russian Empire at the time of her birth and is now Daugavpils, Latvia. In 1912, she made Aliya to Palestine with her family. While studying at the Hebrew Gymnasium, she met Moshe Sharett, one of the leaders of the Yishuv who later became the second Israeli prime minister and its first foreign minister, and in 1922 they married. She supported her husband in all his diplomatic and political activities until his death in 1965. She died in 1973. Early life Born Zippora Meirov in 1896 to Yehuda Meirov and Frida (née Meirovich) in Dvinsk in the Vitebsk region of the Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia) – a city that at that time almost half of its inhabitants were Jews. Her father was one of the "Lovers of Zion", and as a child she did not receive a primary education. Her younger brother is Shaul Avigur, one of the fighters of Tel Hai, one of the leaders of the Haganah, the commander of the Mossad LeAliyah Bet for most of its years, the deputy defense minister during the 1947–1949 Palestine war and the head of the Nativ organization.