afterwards Klüger-Aliav left for South America and the United States, raising money and buying ships. After Israeli independence in 1948, she was public relations manager at ZIM, the Israeli shipping company. Klüger-Aliav divorced in 1940. Ben-Gurion suggested to Ruth a new Hebrew surname: Aliav (V and B are the same Hebrew letter). References 1910 births 1980 deaths Romanian Jews Romanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli memoirists 20th-century memoirists