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Retired Executive Top Manager - Mirella Benzimra
Born in Bologna, Italy in 1928. Arrived in Israel in 1949.

"I was 21 when I arrived in Israel with my husband in 1949. Before then we were working together as co-directors managers in our tannery in England. I did not want to be just a housewife, so I took a job in an International Canadian insurance company. I was prepared to work hard. Being a woman did not help much at that time, but the company saw my strength and commitment and offered me a higher position. At 26 I was the only female top manager for Israel and the Middle East. It surely was not easy to be a woman in such a high position and people made my life difficult. It took all my courage and power to keep on going and to this day I do not know how everything happened to me except that I always gave my all to everything I did. My favourite motto is “Either you do thing till the end or it is better not to even start it.”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
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