Haskina (née Abrabanel) Rakhil Avenirovna (23 September 1930, Perovo, Moscow Region) — physician.

Until 1933 Rakhil Haskina lived in Polonnoye. After her father’s death, she moved with her mother to Kursk, where she lived until 1941.

During the Second World War she and her mother were evacuated to Samarkand, where she completed secondary school and, in 1948, entered the Samarkand Medical Institute.

In 1951 she transferred to the Riga Medical Institute, graduating in 1954.

From 1954 to 1957 she worked as a physician at the Valka District Hospital.

From 1957 to 1967 she was a physician at the Republican Children’s Home in Riga, and from 1967 served there as a physician-methodologist.

In 1973 she applied for permission to emigrate permanently to Israel.

She was liable for military service and held the rank of Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service.

In 1957 she married Elik Shikovich Heskin.

Two children were born in the marriage:

  • Abram Elikovich Haskin (1958, Riga — ?) 

  • Gitida Elikovna Haskina (1966, Riga — ?) 

Her father, Avenir Davidovich Abrabanel (1905, Polonnoye — 1933, Polonnoye), died of a heart attack.

Her mother was Tovba Abramovna Shrifteylik (née Vizelman; first married surname Abrabanel).

Her half-brother was David Izrailovich Shrifteylik.

Family:

Avenir Davidovich Abrabanel (1905, Polonnoye — 1933, Polonnoye) — father
Tovba Abramovna Shrifteylik (née Vizelman; first married surname Abrabanel) — mother
Elik Shikovich Heskin — husband
Abram Elikovich Haskin (1958, Riga — ?) — son
Gitida Elikovna Haskina (1966, Riga — ?) — daughter
David Izrailovich Shrifteylik — half-brother