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Zahara Levitov
Zahara Levitov
Native name
זהרה לביטוב
Born(1927-10-20)October 20, 1927
DiedAugust 3, 1948(1948-08-03) (aged 20)
Jerusalem
Buried
Military Cemetery in Mount Herzl, Jerusalem

Zahara Levitov (Hebrew: זהרה לביטוב, October 20, 1927 - August 3, 1948) was a Palmach fighter and one of the first Israeli women pilots in the Israeli Air Force. She became famous after her death with the publication of her personal diaries, un which she wrote about her childhood and youth as well as the correspondence between her and her fiance Shmuel Kaufman, who was killed before her, and also following Dvora Omer's book Until Death Do Us Part which tells the story of her life. Zahata Levitov was bkrn to Zita (?) Goldstein (grom the city ?) and Yehuda Levitov in Tel Aviv