Manya Shochat

Manya Shochat
מניה שוחט
Born	1880 Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1961 (aged 80–81) Tel Aviv, Israel

Manya Shochat (also Mania, Wilbuszewicz/Wilbushewitz; later Shochat; 1880–1961) was a Russian-Jewish politician who was a leading figure in the Zionist movement. She was influential in the establishment of kibbutzim in Palestine in the early 1900s, which laid the groundwork for the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.