What is Nechama Rivlin?
[[File:Nechama Rivlin (cropped).jpg|thumb|210px|Rivlin in December 2014]] '''Nechama Rivlin''' ({{lang-he-n|נחמה ריבלין}}&lrm;; 5 June 1945 – 4 June 2019) was an [[Israel]]i socialite. She was the [[First Lady of Israel]] from 2014 until her death in 2019. She was married to [[Reuven Rivlin]], the current [[President of Israel]]. The couple married in 1971. Rivlin was born in [[Herut, Israel|Herut]]. She was a graduate of the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]. She later worked as a researcher at the university, and later in the departments of [[zoology]], [[geology]] and [[genetics]]. Rivlin had [[pulmonary fibrosis]], a lung disease. She had a [[lung transplant]] in March 2019. She died of problems caused by the transplant on 4 June 2019 in [[Petah Tikva]]. Her death occurred a day before her 74th birthday.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/nechama-rivlin-wife-of-president-reuven-rivlin-dies-at-73/|title=Nechama Rivlin, wife of President Reuven Rivlin, dies at 73|work=The Times of Israel|date=4 June 2019|access-date=4 June 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivlin, Nechama}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from surgical complications]] [[Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni]] [[Category:Israeli Jews]] [[Category:Deaths from pulmonary fibrosis]] [[Category:First Ladies of Israel]] {{Bio-stub}}