Arna Mer-Khamis
Arna Mer-Khamis (1929 – February 1995)[1] was an Israeli Jewish political and human rights activist.
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[edit] Biography
Mer was born in 1929, in Rosh Pinna, then in Mandate Palestine.[1] She fought with the Palmach and Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. She was an active member of the Communist party in Israel.
During the First Intifada, as part of a project to support the education of children in the West Bank, she established the organisation In the Defence of Children under Occupation/Care and Learning, and later established the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp.
[edit] Family
Mer's father was Gideon Mer, a scientist who pioneered the study of malaria during the British Mandate.[2] She was married to Saliba Khamis, a Christian Arab and a prominent member of Maki and had three sons, Spartacus, Juliano (who adopted the name Juliano Mer-Khamis) and Abir.[3] Juliano, an actor, filmmaker and peace activist who was murdered in 2011, directed the film Arna's Children about Mer's work with the Freedom Theatre.
[edit] Awards
In 1993, Mer was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Arna Mer-Khamis". Arna-Active memorial site. June 2002. http://www.arna.info/Arna/herstory.php. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
- ^ Actor Juliano Mer-Khamis gunned down in Jenin Jerusalem Post, 4 April 2011
- ^ Birenberg, Yoav (6 April 2011). "Juliano Mer's final curtain call". Ynetnews. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4053072,00.html. "Many of the jolts and tribulations experienced by the three brothers stem from their childhood as the sons of an Arab intellectual father Saliba Khamis and a Jewish mother, Arna Mer, a relentless idealist who joined 'Maki' (the Israeli Communist Party)."
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