Rami Elhanan
Israeli graphic designer and peace activist
Rami Elhanan (Hebrew: רמי אלחנן; born c. 1950) is an Israeli graphic designer and peace activist.
Early life
Elhanan, born in Jerusalem, is a sixth-generation Jerusalemite on his mother's side. His father, a Holocaust survivor, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1946. He served in the Israeli Defence Forces as a tank mechanic and was a soldier during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Advocacy
On 4 September 1997, Elhanan's daughter Smadar was killed alongside four others following a suicide bomb attack on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem; she had been shopping for schoolbooks at the time. In 1999, Elhanan met Yitzchak Frankenthal, whose own son had been kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants in 1994; Frankenthal had subsequently established the Parents' Circle-Families Forum for family members of children from both sides killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, who advocated for peace and nonviolence in the region. Following Smadar's death, Elhanan went on to become an active member of the organisation.
Elhanan also became a member of Combatants for Peace, an organisation made up of former Israeli and Palestinian fighters now advocating for peace. Through his membership, he first met Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian man who had served seven years in prison for throwing a grenade at Israeli soldiers.
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