Esther Raziel-Naor
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| Date of birth | 29 November 1911 |
| Place of birth | Smarhon’, Russian Empire |
| Year of aliyah | 1923 |
| Date of death | 11 November 2002 (aged 90) |
| Knessets | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1949–1965 | Herut |
| 1965–1974 | Gahal |
Esther Raziel-Naor (Hebrew: אסתר רזיאל-נאור, 29 November 1911 – 11 November 2002) was a Revisionist Zionist, Irgun leader and Israeli politician. She was the sister of fellow Irgun leader David Raziel.
Raziel was born in Smarhoń (now in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus) in 1911, a year after her brother, David. Her household spoke Hebrew, as her parents refused to speak the more common Yiddish. In 1914 her family immigrated to Eretz Israel, after her father was offered a Hebrew teacher’s position at the “Tachmoni” school in Tel Aviv. However, when World War I began the family was deported by the Ottomans, along with other Russian nationals, to Egypt. She moved back to Russia and returned to Palestine in 1923, after an 8-year absence.
In 1932 she joined Betar and organized the "National Cells." In 1935 she completed the Levinsky Teachers Seminary in Tel Aviv and moved to Jerusalem to work as a teacher, but was fired after being caught wearing a Betar insignia. She returned to Tel Aviv and took a "Lieutenants" course.
In 1936, as the Arab Revolt began, she joined her brother in the Irgun. She took a first aid course and in August she took participated in a reprisal. In 1939 she became the first broadcaster of the Irgun's underground radio station, Kol Zion Halohemet, as well as a writer for Hamashkif, its newspaper. In 1943 she was selected to be a member of the Irgun's command structure.
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