Ofira Navon

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Ofira Navon (Hebrew: אופירה נבון‎; 1936-1994), wife of Yitzhak Navon, the fifth President of Israel, was born in Tel Aviv, to Batya and Eliezer Resnikov, Prisoners of Zion from Russia. Navon had an MA in education and psychology, with a professional certification in rehabilitation psychology from Columbia University, and established the “Presidents Council for the Welfare of the Child". In her later years, Navon openly discussed her struggle with cancer and expressed views on the treatment of the disease that sometimes aroused pointed public debate. In her struggle against cancer, she was a model to many other cancer patients and offered them hope.