Women of valor – heroines of Zionism and Israel

Women of valor – heroines of Zionism and Israel

A recent debate in Israel about whose portrait should be on the yet-to-be issued new currency notes put the focus on the role of women in the history of the state of Israel and the years leading to its establishment.

This led me to make this long, yet incomplete list of prominent and other remarkable women in the history of Israel and Zionism. I've gathered most of the information from the Hebrew web. On some there is material in English, and I provided links in those instances. In many cases the information is scant, some had even been forgotten from Israel's collective memory.
This list is by no means complete, but a farther research will require some leg work in universities and public libraries. I do hope that by just mentioning them I'm giving them some of the honor they deserve, though no doubt they deserve far more than a blog post can provide.

More at: http://dvardea.blogspot.com/2009/12/women-of-valor-heroines-of-zionism-and.html