Aviva Rabinovich

Aviva Rabinowitz, daughter of Hannah and Naftali, was born in Ein Harod, lived in Jerusalem and in Kfar Warburg, where her parents established a farm, and studied in Beer Tuvia.

[1] (In her 1998 interview she said that the veterans, such as Ariel Sharon, Rafael Eitan, and Yitzhak Rabin "listened to her ecological ravings only because they remembered her as the only woman wounded during the War while charging the enemy position.

[4] She was one of ten women interviewees in the documentary Akhyotenu giborot ha-tehila ("Our sisters, heroines of fame")[5] After the discharge she settled in kibbutz Kabri, together with some members of the Harel Brigade.

[3] Aviva Rabinovich was an avid critic of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) for its monocultural approach to forestry, which adversely impacted the wildlife.

[6] In particular, she spearheaded a claim before the High Court of Justice against the JNF and several governmental organizations stating that they aggressively handled the areas assigned for afforestation, which resulted in severe ecological damages and she won a verdict that the prescribed activities in preparation to afforestation did cause grave damages to the ecosystem and were in violation of the law for many years.