| Mina Ben-Zvi | |
| Native Name: | מינה בן-צבי |
| Native Name Lang: | he |
| Birth Name: | Mina Rogozik |
| Birth Date: | 1909 |
| Birth Place: | Velyki Mezhyrichi, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine |
| Death Date: | 2000 |
| Branch: | Israel Defense Forces |
| Serviceyears: | 1933–1958 |
| Rank: | Tat aluf (Brigadier General) |
| Commands: | Women's Corps of the Israel Defense Forces |
| Battles: | 1947–1949 Palestine war |
| Laterwork: | Diplomat, women's rights activist |
Mina Ben-Zvi (he|מינה בן-צבי; 1909-2000) was the first commanding officer of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Women's Corps.[1]
Mina Ben-Zvi was born as Mina Rogozik in 1909 in Ukraine (Velyki Mezhyrichi, Rivne Oblast). In 1921 she moved with her family to Mandatory Palestine.[2] After completing her education, in 1933, at the age of 24, she joined the Haifa branch of the Haganah.[3]
During the World War II, she was among the first 66 women in Mandate Palestine to join the women's corps of the British Army.[2] She subsequently became as a commander of a British unit in Egypt with a rank of captain.[4] When the 1948 war started she was appointed as the first commander in chief of the women's corps of Israeli Defense Forces.[1] In 1953, she joined her husband Eliyahu Ben-Zvi on a diplomatic mission to Finland from 1953 to 1955.[2] Later she was appointed as Israel's representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (1956–1958).[5] In 1960 Golda Meir established Mount Carmel International Training Center in collaboration with Ben-Zvi, and Inga Thorsson, a Swedish diplomat, who later became Sweden's Ambassador to Israel.[6] Ben-Zvi became the founding director of Mount Carmel International Training Center, and served as its director for a period of 25 years.
According to Heller, she worked "for advancing women's rights worldwide."[2] She died in 2000.