Yehudit Simhonit

Yehudit Simhonit (sometimes Simhoni;[note 1] Hebrew: יהודית שמחונית; 24 January 1902 – 5 December 1991) was a Zionist activist and politician.

In 1921 she and her husband Mordechai Simhoni emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, and settled in Nahalal, the newly established first moshav.

[1] She later worked as a member of the Histadrut's co-ordinating committee and chief cultural and welfare officer of the IDF's Women's Corps.

Her son, Major General Asaf Simhoni, was killed in a plane crash at the end of the Sinai War.

Her grandson, Avner Simhoni, was killed in 1968 when a mine exploded in the Gulf of Suez during the military operations in the War of Attrition.

Yehudit Simhoni (age 63) and her husband, Mordechai Simhoni (age 70), Kibbutz Geva