Lili Naveh

Lili Naveh

Lili Naveh was the first social worker at the first shelter for battered women in Haifa. In 1991, she ran the American Technion Society’s Northern Pacific Region. She served on the board of the JCRC, consulted for the Israel Democracy Institute and is co-founder of Berkeley’s Hebrew Cultural Circle.
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I was 3 when we left the sorrow of Poland to run free in Haifa

Lili Naveh by Lili Naveh

I was 3 years old in 1957 when I left Poland for a new life in Israel with my devastated mother. Her parents and three siblings were murdered in the Holocaust. She had no relatives and no job. While she learned Hebrew at an ulpan, I lived in a Haifa orphanage with other traumatized children. […]