Born December 3, 1930
Tarnow, Poland

Israeli human rights attorney

Felicia Langer is an Israeli lawyer who, after becoming aware of injustices committed against Palestinians, decided to focus her legal career on their defense. Her service to Palestinian clients began in 1967—the year that tensions erupted into warfare between Israel and her neighbors in the Arab world, resulting in the Israeli army occupation of the Palestinian-inhabited lands of the West Bank and Gaza. For the next twenty-three years Langer provided legal counsel to Palestinians whose human rights had been violated by the Israeli army and legal system. Because of Langer’s political stance, her fellow Israelis ostracized and even threatened to kill her.

Flees from Nazi forces

Felicia Weid was born in Poland in 1930 to Jewish parents. At the outbreak of World War II (1939–45), Langer and her parents fled to Russia to escape Nazi persecution...