Yemima Hovav, Author at סגולה

A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

When requesting that Chaim Weizmann become Israel’s first president, Ben-Gurion described him as having done more to create the state than anyone else. Yet Weizmann’s new role effectively removed the lifelong activist from Israeli politics...

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Issue 75 | December 2025

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Yemima Hovav

A Jewish money changer disappears one fine day in Hamburg, never to be heard of again. Three years later, another one vanishes. Only one woman connected the two events and dared to seek justice Yemima...

Issue 45 | November 2018

Return of the Spies – Nili

Yemima Hovav

In the dark days of World War I, members of the Nili spy ring foresaw the new order emerging in the Middle East and opted to work with the British, despite all the risks. To...

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Issue 23 | October 2014

A Beautiful Mind

Yemima Hovav

Two Takes, One Woman Scene 1: a lavish European ballroom complete with crystal chandeliers, plush Persian rugs, and exquisite porcelain vases. Flowers, champagne flutes on silver salvers, exotic hors d׳oeuvres served by black-clad waiters –...

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Issue 32 | June 2016

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

1. Hedy Lamarr׳s parents came from a bourgeois Jewish background. Her father was born in Lvov, Poland, and her mother in Budapest. Assimilation was their fast track to economic security; they even gave their only...

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Issue 32 | June 2016

Yemima Hovav

A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Return of the Spies – Nili

A Beautiful Mind

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

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