Rina Levinson

[1] She earned her civilian pilot's licence in 1946 and studied aerospace engineering in the United States.

[1][2] On her return to Israel in 1951, she was admitted to the Israeli Air Force (IAF) pilot training course along with two other women, Ya'el Rom-Finkelstein and Ruth Bokbinder.

[3] During the Suez Crisis in 1956, in operation "קיטור" (Machbesh) Levinson and Ya'el Rom-Finkelstein flew 2 of the 16 C-47 Dakotas that carried the 395 paratroopers of the 890th Parachute Battalion of the 202nd Parachute Brigade to the Mitla Pass, the first action of the Second Arab-Israeli War.

[2] In 1957, she earned her D-licence at the same time as well-known French aviators Suzanne Jannin and Valerie André.

After leaving the IAF,[5] Levinson founded Monavir Air Taxi & Charter Service in the early 1960s, an airline that operated Cessnas from the then small airport near Jerusalem.