Simha Tzabari

Simha Tzabari (1913–2004) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the central committee of the illegal Palestine Communist Party.

Simha Tzabari
Personal details
Born1913
Tel Aviv, Ottoman Empire
Died2004 (aged 90–91)
Political party
OccupationTeacher

Early life and education

Tzabari was born in Tel Aviv in 1913, and her parents were Yemenite Jewish workers.[1] She had five siblings, including Rahel.[1] She attended Yehieli Girls School in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood of Tel Aviv.[1] During her studies she became a revolutionary and was trained at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow in the early 1930s.[1][2] At age 21 she became a member of the central committee of the Palestinian Communist Party which had been illegally operating.[1]

Career and activities

Tzabari worked at a factory and was a member of the Communist Youth League.[1] She launched the Jewish branch of the Palestine Communist Party to organize activities in the cities of Jerusalem, Haifa, and Tel Aviv.[3] However, it was closed in 1939 due to the conflicts between the group and the leadership of the party.[3] In the 1940s she continued to be one of the leading members of the party.[4] Following the establishment of Israel in 1948 she joined the leftist political party Mapam.[1] She retired from politics in 1954 and attended a high school obtaining a diploma.[1] She worked as a teacher of Arabic at a school in Ramla.[1]

Personal life and death

Tzabari did not get married and had no children.[1] She had an affair with Radwan Al Hilu, general secretary of the Palestine Communist Party.[5][6]

She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2002 and died in October 2004.[1]

References
  1. Dalia Karpel (9 December 2004). "A Revolutionary Life". Haaretz. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  2. Nir Arielli (October 2011). "Induced to Volunteer? The Predicament of Jewish Communists in Palestine and the Spanish Civil War". Journal of Contemporary History. 46 (4): 863. doi:10.1177/0022009411413406. JSTOR 41305362. S2CID 153545063.
  3. Fadi H. Kafeety (May 2019). The Forgotten Comrades: Leftist Women, Palestinians, and the Jordanian Communist Party, 1936–1957 (MA thesis). City University of New York. p. 16.
  4. Musa Budeiri (14 August 2020). "Essential Readings on the Left in Mandate Palestine". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  5. Tamir Sorek (2020). The Optimist. A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 23. doi:10.1515/9781503612747. ISBN 9781503612747. S2CID 228970986.
  6. Marev Mack (2015). "Orthodox and Communist: A History of a Christian Community in Mandate Palestine and Israel". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 42 (4): 394. doi:10.1080/13530194.2014.1002386. S2CID 153785634.
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