Zuta, Hannah

Daughter of Yehudit (nee Yevin) and Yitzhak (the son of the teacher and author, ZA Zuta, a pioneer of Hebrew education in Russia and Israel) was born on 29.10.1922 in New York City, In school. In 1926 the family returned to Israel. Hannah attended the Reali School in Haifa, the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem and the Beit HaKerem Teachers’ College. Her friends from the Scouts in Jerusalem remember her spiritual independence and her firm stance on her views. She joined the Palmach and served in the Galilee and Samaria in 1942. In 1942, she volunteered for the Women’s Corps (ETS) in the British army and served in Cairo and Gaza as a truck driver. In 1947 she was about to leave for England to continue her studies, but for various reasons she did not make do with the degree of education she had acquired for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. On January 7, 1948, an Arab sniper hit her and killed her. A monument to her memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.