Reuma Weizman

Reuma Weizman was born in 1925 in London

Reuma Schwartz was born in London in 1925. Her parents, Zvi and Rachel, were members of the Second Aliyah and among the founders of the Mapai party. The family returned to Jerusalem and lived in the Rehavia neighborhood, and her older sister Ruth later married Moshe Dayan.

At 9 she moved to Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek for a kibbutz education. She later trained in agriculture at Kibbutz Nir David and finished a teaching course at the Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. She then worked for about 2 years at a children's home near Hamburg with child refugees of World War II.

After the War of Independence she returned to Israel and served in the Women's Corps. She met Ezer Weizman in 1949 and married him in 1950 at the Dayan home in Jerusalem. They had a son, Shaul, and a daughter, Michal, and Shaul was killed with his wife in a car accident in 1991.

Before her husband became president, she worked for children with intellectual disabilities in social organizations. As the president's wife, she opened the President's House to camps for children with cancer and to exhibitions of Israeli artists. She visited immigrant sites across Israel, especially for immigrants from Ethiopia, and started the Good Deed Award. She died in 2025.