Butina (née Breslav) Nehame Moiseyevna (born 5 November 1946, Riga) – mechanical engineer.

Nehame Butina was born into the family of a worker, Moisey Gershevich Breslav (1910, Dvinsk, now Daugavpils), and a retail employee, Chaya Iserovna Breslav (1914, Riga). From 1953, she studied at Riga Secondary School No. 30. She then worked as an assembler at the VEF factory (1961), a trainee shop assistant at Bookstore No. 35 (1961–1962), and an assembler at the Etalon factory (1962). In 1964, she was a laboratory assistant at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where she also studied and completed Evening School No. 2 in 1963. She graduated from the full-time program at RPI in 1967. From 1968 to 1974, she worked as a technician and later a process engineer at the Rigaselmash factory.

In her marriage to Veniamin Ioelovich Butin (b. 1947, Riga), they had a son, Dan Veniaminovich Butin (b. 1967, Riga).

In 1974, Nehame Butina received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1972 her husband’s cousin, Abram Meerovich Butin (b. 1938, Dvinsk), had been living.

Family:

Moisey Gershevich Breslav (b. 1910) – father
Chaya Iserovna Breslav (b. 1914) – mother
Gershen Moiseyevich Breslav (b. 1949, Riga) – brother
Veniamin Ioelovich Butin (b. 1947) – husband
Dan Veniaminovich Butin (b. 1967) – son
Abram Meerovich Butin (b. 1938) – husband’s cousin