Shulamit Aloni
| Shulamit Aloni | |
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| Date of birth | 27 December 1928 |
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine |
| Date of death | 24 January 2014 (aged 85) |
| Place of death | Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel |
| Knessets | 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1965–1967 | Labor Alignment |
| 1967–1968 | Labor Party |
| 1968–1969 | Alignment |
| 1974–1975 | Ratz |
| 1975–1976 | Ya'ad – Civil Rights Movement |
| 1976–1981 | Ratz |
| 1981–1984 | Alignment |
| 1984–1992 | Ratz |
| 1992–1996 | Meretz |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1974 | Minister without Portfolio |
| 1992–1993 | Minister of Education and Culture |
| 1993 | Minister without Portfolio |
| 1993–1996 | Minister of Communications |
| 1993–1996 | Minister of Science and the Arts |
Shulamit Aloni (Hebrew: שולמית אלוני; 27 December 1928 – 24 January 2014) was an Israeli politician. She founded the Ratz party, was leader of the Meretz party and served as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993. In 2000, she won the Israel Prize.
Shulamit Adler was born in Tel Aviv. Her mother was a seamstress and her father was a carpenter, both descended from Polish rabbinical families. She was sent to boarding school during World War II while her parents served in the British Army. As a youth she was a member of the socialist Zionist Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and the Palmach. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War she was involved in military struggles for the Old City of Jerusalem and was captured by Jordanian forces. Following the establishment of the state of Israel, she worked with child refugees and helped establish a school for immigrant children. She taught school while studying law.
In 1952 she married Reuven Aloni (founder of Israel Lands Administration), moved to Kfar Shmaryahu, and they had three sons:
Aloni joined Mapai in 1959. She also worked as an attorney and hosted a radio show Outside Working Hours that dealt with human rights and women's rights. She also wrote columns for several newspapers.
She contributed the piece "Up the down escalator" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan.
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