Rebecca Toueg

Rebecca Toueg is an Israeli citizen born in Shanghai, China, of Iraqi-Jewish parentage, and educated in British schools. After completing her B.A. degree in English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she spent three years in England and two years in France as a foreign student. She then returned to a teaching position at Tel Aviv University in the English Department where she obtained her M.A. degree. On her retirement from teaching, she began working as a translator and editor and acquired a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Haifa University with a thesis on R.G. Collingwood. Her late husband, Ezra Toueg, was born in Cairo, Egypt. She has one son and three grandchildren.