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Before beginning, a few words are in order. Writing about someone you love is inevitably a deeply personal matter. Since Rina was, for me, an unabashed object of love, you must retain some perspective about what I say. This is my Rina - all of you who knew her will have your own.
First, I would like to bow to the conventional by simply and briefly listing some of the highlights of Rina's extraordinary career. There are many, many others.1
At the time of her death, Rina was the President, a faculty member and Training Analyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. She was, as well, a founder and the former Co-Director of the Programme in Organizational Development and Consultation - A Systems Psychoanalytic Perspective, at the Sigmund Freud Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
For almost all of her career, spanning thirty-five years, Rina practised first as a clinical psychologist, and subsequently as a both a psychoanalyst and an organizational consultant. In the latter role, she worked with various organizations in industry, health, education, banking, and the arts, both in Israel and internationally. One particularly notable and very public engagement was her three-year consultation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which resulted in a major publication (1995) with the Museum's Director,