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Ruth Rasnic

Ruth Rasnic is an Israeli activist against violence toward women, a writer and a translator, and she received the Israel Prize in 2009.

born 1932Founding the L.O. associationShelters for battered womenCo-founding the Ratz partyThe 2009 Israel Prize

Born: 31 October 1932, Jerusalem
Occupation: translator, writer, activist
Party: Meretz, Ratz

Ruth Rasnic was born in 1932 in Jerusalem

Ruth Rasnic was born in Jerusalem in 1932 to Israel Meir Lask and Lyuba Pevzner. She grew up in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and studied at the Evelina de Rothschild school and later at schools in Tel Aviv.

At 14 she joined the Etzel and took part in training but not in combat. At 16 she left school for a youth group at kibbutz Ruhama, and later served in the Israeli Air Force.

She worked at the Israeli embassy in London and returned to Israel in 1956 after her brother, navigator Amitai Lask, died. With her husband she ran an office services and advertising business until 1978.

In 1972 she helped found the Israeli feminist movement in Tel Aviv. In 1977 she founded the L.O. association, which runs shelters for battered women, and led it as paid director until 2011, then as a volunteer.

She helped found the Ratz party in 1973 and represented it in Na'amat from 1981 to 1996. In 1986 she joined the founders of the Israel Women's Network, and in 2009 she received the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement.