Reuma Weizman

In 1951 Ezer Weizmann was accepted to study in the British Air Force and the couple moved to England, where their eldest son Shaul was born. Their daughter Michal was born four years later. Shaul was severely wounded in the canal front during the War of Attrition when an Egyptian sniper shot him on the head. In 1991, Shaul was killed with his wife in a car accident and they were both buried in the cemetery in Or Akiva. In March 1991, a woman sued the Weizmann couple and the estate of their son Shaul, claiming that Shaul was the father of her son. A tissue test that the Weizmann couple underwent proved that the boy is indeed Shaul’s son.

Reuma met Ezer Weizmann in 1949 when he and Mordechai Hod stopped for her for a ride on the way to a memorial service for Modi Alon. They were married in 1950 in the yard of the home of her sister and husband, Ruth and Moshe Dayan. Moshe Dayan was then the commander of Jerusalem, and the family home was located in Villa Leah in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. The couple was married by Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.

After the 1947–1949 Palestine war, Reuma returned to Israel and served in the Women’s Corps as a clerk in the Government Press Office.

Reuma Weizman (Hebrew: ראומה ויצמן ; née Schwartz; born 18 August 1925) is an Israeli public personality and the wife of the seventh President of the State of Israel, Ezer Weizmann, who served in this position from May 13, 1993 to July 13, 2000.

Reuma Schwartz was born in London, United Kingdom, on August 18, 1925. Her parents, Zvi, born in Novoselytsia, and Rachel, born in Kishinev (daughter of Dov Klimker), were members of the Second Aliyah, founders of the Mapai party and the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reuma’s older sister was Ruth, who later married Moshe Dayan.