Hassia Levy-Agron

Hassia Levy-Agron (; 2 December 192322 August 2001) was an Israeli dancer, choreographer, and educator.

Early life Hassia Levy was born in Jerusalem on 2 December 1923, to Elisheva Rivlin and Hayyim Leib Levy, a board member of the Anglo-Palestine Bank. A seventh-generation Jewish Jerusalemite, she was descended from two prominent families: her paternal grandfather co-founded Tel Aviv, and this line of the family had immigrated from Russia in the First Aliyah, while her mother was part of the Rivlin family.

Military service In 1948, Levy-Agron began performing for the Israeli troops to boost morale. As part of her service, after the war in Palestine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee sent her to Europe to perform at Displaced persons camps, for post-World War II European Jews who had not been resettled. In 1957 they had a son, Amos Agron.

Levy-Agron died peacefully in the afternoon on 22 August 2001.