Hanna Zemer

Hanna Zemer (Hebrew: חנה זמר‎, 1925 – March 6, 2003) was an Israeli journalist. She was Editor-in-Chief of Davar from 1970 until 1990, the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper.

Biography

Hanna Haberfeld (later Zemer) was born in Bratislava. Her father was Rabbi Shlomo Haberfeld, and her grandfather, Rabbi Jacob Haberfeld, was the rabbi of Turá Lúka. Her family was ultra-Orthodox.

During World War II, she was imprisoned at the Ravensbrück and Malchow concentration camps. Most of her family was killed in the Holocaust.

Zemer immigrated to Israel in 1950. She was married briefly, and changed her married name from Zomer to Zemer. She taught in the Orthodox Bais Yaakov (Beth Jacob) school system in Azor, southeast of Tel Aviv.

Media career

Zemer began working as a night editor for a German-language Israeli newspaper, Yediot HaYom in 1950. In 1951 she was hired as a correspondent by the daily newspaper Omer, for new immigrants (with Hebrew vowels), which was a supplement of Davar. She then became a writer for Davar, and became its political affairs correspondent.

Zemer

Zemer (Hebrew: זמר‎; Arabic: زيمر‎) is an Arab local council in the Center District of Israel. It is located in the Arab Triangle area, between Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Bat Hefer on Road 574. Zemer is the result of a merger of four villages – Yama, Bir al-Sika, Ibtan and Marja - in 1988

History

Potsherds dating from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine era have been found at Ibtan. Yama and Ibtan appeared in Ottoman tax registers compiled in 1596, in the Nahiyas of Qaqun and Jabal Sami, respectively, of the Nablus Liwa. Yama had a population of 18 Muslim households and 5 bachelors, while Ibtan was indicated as empty even though it paid taxes.

In 1882, in the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine, only Khurbet Ibthan was noted, with "traces of ruins and a well."

Prior to 1948, all four villages were administratively related to modern-day Palestinian town of Deir al-Ghusun.

Zemer's population at the end of 2009 was 5,700, and its jurisdiction is 8,203 dunams.

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