Sherover Gita (08.08.1917, Riga ― 11.06.2004, Jerusalem) ― public figure.
Born into the family of successful businessman Leopold Belson, who at the time of her birth was in prison as a representative of the bourgeoisie (he first saw his daughter in 1920).
In 1921 the family moved to Berlin, where the head of the family's business flourished. In the early 1930s Sh. joined the socialist Zionist youth movement “Habonim,” whose goal was to accelerate emigration to Palestine. Her parents were against the Zionist movement and regarded Hitler as a passing phase of German history.
Hitler's rise to power and the first antisemitic laws split the family. Her parents returned to Riga, where they were killed in 1941; her sister Pima emigrated to Palestine; Sh. and her fiancé George Pappa moved to Denmark, where she worked on a dairy farm and prepared for life in a kibbutz.
In 1934 she took part in a Zionist youth congress in Switzerland and, together with her fiancé, emigrated to Palestine in 1935 as part of a group of pioneers. The group settled in Kibbutz Sha'ar HaNegev. That same year Sh. married and moved to Tel Aviv.
During the Second World War she volunteered in the British Army as part of the women's forces of the Royal Air Force. She learned English and was posted to Egypt ― first to Cairo, then to Alexandria. After demobilisation she returned to Tel Aviv.
On 8 August 1945 she gave birth to a son, Gabriel, and soon afterwards moved to Jerusalem. She was actively involved in the struggle to create the State of Israel, working in the political department of the Jewish Agency, which served as the shadow government of the Jewish settlement (the political department later became one of the departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Her apartment in Jerusalem was one of the centres of the anti-British movement. She divorced in 1949 and opened her own business escorting distinguished guests of the State of Israel. In the early 1950s, during the great aliyah from North Africa, she became a volunteer at the Talpiot transit camp (Jerusalem).
In February 1954 she accompanied Miles Sherover, a Venezuelan steel magnate, on a tour of Israel. A year later she married him. The family moved to Caracas.
In 1958 they returned to Jerusalem. After her marriage she left business and ran the household, which soon became a meeting place for politicians, businessmen, artists, writers, and musicians, such as Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Rubinstein. Sh.'s family was actively involved in the construction of a theatre in Jerusalem.
After her husband's death in 1976, Sh. kept his villa as a meeting place for high society.
After her son's death in 1988 she established the Gabriel Sherover Foundation, which supports the construction of public buildings.

V. Shaldova