Ruth Klüger Aliav (née Polishuk) (April 27, 1910 – February 16, 1980)[1] was a Ukrainian-born Romanian and Israeli Jewish Zionist activist, assisting in the Aliya Beth before and after World War II.
Fluent in nine languages, she raised funds and helped organize the ships the Tiger Hill (September 1939) and the Hilda (January 1940) to carry Jewish refugees to Palestine.
After Romania became an Axis Power, she escaped to Istanbul, Turkey and there together with other Mossad agents organized the dispatch of the ship the Darien II in March 1941.
In October 1945, David Ben-Gurion arrived in Paris and, to avoid eavesdroppers, he and Klüger-Aliav went for a four-hour walk in the Bois de Boulogne.
Paris then became the headquarters of Aliya Beth; soon afterwards Klüger-Aliav left for South America and the United States, raising money and buying ships.