Hana Meisel
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Hana Meisel or Meizel (Hebrew:חנה מייזל) born in Byelorussia[1] in 1890, and immigrated to Palestine in 1909, during the Second Aliyah, where she became a noted agronomist, and was a founder of Haalamot (Hebrew: חוותהעלמות) agricultural school in 1911 (closed in 1917), and the agricultural school for girls at Nahalal.
She made considerable contributions to the feminist wing of the Zionist movement.
She was a member of Poale Zion, and studied agriculture and natural science in Odessa, Switzerland and France.
She married Eliezer Shohat, also a well known figure in the Zionist movement.
She died in 1972.
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- ^ Who's who in Jewish History, written by Joan Comay, Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, published by Routledge, 2002, ISBN:0415260302, page 145
