Axelrod (Axelrod) (Fingergoit) Rakhel Evelevna (21.01.1947, Riga) – Engineer-Economist.

Rachel Axelrod was born into the family of Evel Sholomovich Fingergoit(1906, Dvinsk [now Daugavpils] – 1970, Riga) and Ester Mordukhovna Fingergoit (Ger)(1913, Dvinsk, now Daugavpils). She graduated from secondary school in 1964 and initially worked as a technological process controller at the Sadarbs textile factory (1964).

In 1969, Rakhel Axelrod graduated from Latvian State University and worked as an engineer-economist at the Bureau of Economics and Economic-Mathematical Planning Methods under the Latvian SSR State Planning Committee. In 1971, this bureau was renamed the Research Institute for Planning of the Latvian SSR State Planning Committee, where she continued to work from 1970 to 1979.

Rachel was married to Yuri Grigoryevich Axelrod (1937, Leningrad), and they had two daughters:

Nelly Yuryevna Axelrod (1968, Riga)

Elina Yuryevna Axelrod (1975, Riga)

In 1979, Rakhel Axelrod received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband's relative, Yenta Hertsekhovna Axelrod (Volos) (1933, Varakļāni), had been living since 1973.

Family Members:

Evel Sholomovich Fingergoit (1906–1970) – father
Ester Mordukhovna Fingergoit(Ger) (1913) – mother
Yuri Grigoryevich Axelrod(1937) – husband
Nelly Yuryevna Axelrod (1968) – daughter
Elina Yuryevna Axelrod(1975) – daughter
Yenta Hertsekhovna Axelrod (Volos) (1933) – husband's relative