Hana Meisel


Hana Meisel was a Jewish agronomist, feminist and Zionist.

Life

Meisel was born in Hrodna in the Russian Empire, and immigrated to Palestine in 1909, during the Second Aliyah, where she became a noted agronomist, and was a founder of Havat HaAlamot agricultural school in 1911, and the girls' agricultural school at Nahalal. She studied agriculture and natural science in Odessa, Switzerland and France.
She made considerable contributions to the feminist wing of the Zionist movement. Meisel was a member of Poale Zion and was elected to the Assembly of Representatives.
She was married to Eliezer Shohat, also a well-known figure in the Zionist movement, much like his brother Israel Shochat.
Hana Meisel died at Nahalal in 1972.

In literature

Meisel is referenced in Shmuel Yosef Agnon's fictionalized travelogue of the Second Aliyah HaGalilah, published in his posthumous volume Pithei Devarim.