{"id":12127,"date":"2014-01-24T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=12127"},"modified":"2014-01-24T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:22:59","slug":"shulamit-aloni-fiery-ex-leader-of-meretz-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/shulamit-aloni-fiery-ex-leader-of-meretz-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Shulamit Aloni, fiery ex-leader of Meretz dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Shulamit Aloni, a\u00a0former Israeli minister and leader of the left-wing Meretz party, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Aloni died Friday at the age of 86. She will be buried Sunday in Kfar Shmaryahu near the northern Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya, Israel\u2019s Army Radio reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12128\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shulait_Aloni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12128\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shulait_Aloni-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shulait_Aloni\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12128 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shulait_Aloni-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shulait_Aloni.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shulait_Aloni-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shulait_Aloni\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shulait_Aloni-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shulait_Aloni.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-12128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shulamit Aloni was a longtime leader in Israel\u2019s peace camp. (Uri Lenz\/Flash90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A veteran of Israel\u2019s War of Independence War and a product of the Shomer HaTzair Zionist youth movement, Aloni first earned notice as a radio journalist. She entered politics in 1965 as a Knesset member for what would become the Israeli Labor Party.<\/p>\n<p>She broke away from Labor in 1973, leading the Ratz party, which emphasized civil rights and feminism. In 1992, Ratz coalesced with the left-wing Mapam movement, becoming the Meretz Party. Under her leadership, Meretz won 12 seats in the Knesset and helped provide the political support Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin needed the following year to sign the Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Aloni was education minister minister in the Rabin government but was forced out after a year because of a string of controversies over her staunch defense of secularism.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career, Aloni focused on promoting separation between religion and state in Israel. She was a supporter of territorial concessions as a means of\u00a0promoting peace with Arab nations and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by three sons who have careers in public life. In a letter of condolences to them, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: \u201cDespite profound disagreements that we have had over the years, I valued her contribution to Israeli public life and her determination to stand resolutely for the things in which she believed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Shulamit%20Aloni%2C%20fiery%20ex-leader%20of%20Meretz%20dies\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,19],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,4894,8788,4893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions\/12130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}