Olga Hankin
Olga Hankin (or Khankin, he, אוֹלְגָּה חַנְקִין, 9 January 1852 - 21 April 1943) was a feminism, feminist, professional midwife and Zionism, Zionist activist who, together with her husband, Yehoshua Hankin, was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization, Zionist Organization in Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Palestine (region), Palestine and Mandatory Palestine. While he became known as a prominent "redeemer of lands" (Hebrew) :HE:גאולת קרקע (ציונות), גואל האדמות she, too, was instrumental in this work. Biography file:Olga&TheKorbach.jpg, upright=0.75, Olga Hankin holding whip with which she kept potential attackers at bay as she made her midwifery rounds Olga Hankin née Belkind was born in the small town of Lahoysk near Minsk in Belarus or Byelorussia, the oldest child of Meir and Shifra Belkind. She moved to St. Petersburg as a young woman and to the Land of Israel as part of the First Aliyah in 1886. Two ...
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