Shulamit Aloni was a member of the Knesset for a total of 26 years between 1965-1996 (with one break).
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Shulamit Aloni was born in Poland and raised in Tel Aviv by her mother Yehudit Adler, her father David Adler (not in photo) and her younger brother Mordechai, who died at the age of 12.
Shulamit Aloni’s friendship with Shimon Peres dates back to their youth in the Ben Shemen Youth Village.
Credit: Avi Ohayon
Credit: Avi Ohayon
Shulamit Aloni first met Yitzhak Rabin as a young child in Tel Aviv of the 1930s (also in the photo: Haim Harari of the Weizmann Institute).
Credit: Zvika Israeli
Credit: Zvika Israeli
As a member of Yitzhak Rabin’s first government, Shulamit Aloni supported the disengagement from the Egyptian army following the 1973 war. In the photo with Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Henry Kissinger.
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
In the second Yitzhak Rabin government Shulamit Aloni agreed to cooperate with political friends and foes in order to promote the chance for peace. In the photo with ministers David Libai and Arie Deri.
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
As Minister of Education and Culture, Shulamit Aloni opened the 1992/93 school year visiting schools in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem
Credit: Ziv Koren
Credit: Ziv Koren
Shulamit Aloni was first sworn to the sixth Knesset on November 22, 1965.
Credit: Moshe Fridan
Credit: Moshe Fridan
In the 1980’s members of Knesset from across the political spectrum cooperated in a hunger strike to support a hospital nurses’ strike. In the photo: Shulamit Aloni with her political rival MK Geula Cohen, and MK Dedi Zucker of her own party
Credit: Eilon Magi
Credit: Eilon Magi
Shulamit Aloni studied in ter youth in the Ben Shemen Youth VIllage
Shulamit Aloni was awarded in 2000 the Israel Prize, for a “unique contribution to society and to the State.”
In 1992 Shulamit ALoni founded MERETZ, the united list of her own Ratz with the Mapam (in the photo its leader Yair Tzaban) and Shinui (in the photo its leader Amnon Rubinstein) parties. In the photo, Meretz leaders with prime minister Yitzhak Shamir.
Credit: Eilon Magi
Credit: Eilon Magi
On July 13 1992 Shulamit Aloni was sworn in as Minister of Education and Culture. During her reign the school day was lengthened, teacher salaries were significantly raised and extensive affirmative action was taken to promote education in the Arab-Israeli society.
Credit: Avi Ohayon
Credit: Avi Ohayon
As a fierce warrior for human and civil rights in Israel, Shulamit Aloni was first to initiate civil weddings in Israel.
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
“Many of the issues she fought for forcefully as a trailblazer have become over the years commonplace and many are no longer controversial. That, as well, is an expression of her unique contribution to the dignity of humans and to their natural and basic rights as well as to the equality between the genders and between the nations.” (from the Israel Prize judges’ justifications)
Credit: Amos Ben Gershom
Credit: Amos Ben Gershom
Shulamit Aloni served as Minister of Communications and as Minister of Science and the Arts under Shimon Peres as prime minister, following Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination and until the end of the term of the 13th Knesset.
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
As Minister of Communications, Shulamit Aloni spearheaded the introduction of competition in international and mobile telephony.
Credit: Avi Ohayon
Credit: Avi Ohayon
Shulamit Aloni wrote columns for decades in “Yedioth Aharonot” and “La’Isha.”
Credit: Shmuel Rahmani
Credit: Shmuel Rahmani
Shulamit Aloni served as Minister of Education of Culture, Minister of Communications and Minister of Science and the Arts in Yitzhak Rabin’s cabinet from its inception in July 1992, and until Rabin’s assasination on November 4, 1995.
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Shulamit Aloni served as a minister without portfolio in Yitzhak Rabin’s first government in 1974, for a period of 5 months.
Credit: Moshe Milner
Credit: Moshe Milner
In 1958 Shulamit Aloni published “The Citizen and his State,” the first textbook for civic studies in the State of Israel.
As member of the opposition Shulamit Aloni was still able to initiate the law decriminalizing homosexual relationships among consenting adults.
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Shulamit Aloni (December 27, 1927 – January 24, 2014). Political leader, devoted to the advancement of peace, of human and civil rights, and of consumer rights, teacher, educator, Member of Knesset, Minister, and an Israel Prize laureate.
Credit: Yaacov Saar
Credit: Yaacov Saar
As Minister of Culture Shulamit Aloni doubled the government’s support for the arts. (In the photo: with Yossi Frost who headed the Culture Administration when she served as Minister. He is the initiator of the Shulamit Aloni Prize).
Shulamit Aloni with her aides Michal Rafaeli Kaduri and Amit Schejter, who are voluntarily managing the Shulamit Aloni Prize.
Shulamit and Reuven Aloni lived their whole life in a modest wooden shack in Kfar Shmaryahu
Shulamit Aloni led the opposition to the settlements in the West Bank and to the subsequent displacement of Palestinians from their homes. In the photo with Michal Rafaeli Kaduri during a protest in Hebron (al-Khalil).
As the leader of Israel’s peace camp, Shulamit Aloni had extensive ties with the Palestinian leadership. In the photo with Hanan Ashrawi.
Shulamit Aloni was married to Reuven Aloni from 1952 until his death in 1988. She is the mother of Dror, Nimrod and Udi Aloni.
Beginning in the late 1950s and for eight years, Shulamit Aloni ran a radio show promoting consumer affairs.
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