Ruth Pearl

RUTH PEARL was an Israeli-American software developer and community activist who earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering and worked as a computer software analyst in Los Angeles.

Pearl co-edited I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She studied at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology.

Pearl co-founded the Daniel Pearl Foundation in 2002 following the murder of her son, journalist Daniel Pearl, and served as the foundation’s CFO until her death. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 11, 1935, and died on July 20, 2021, at age 85.

Ruth Pearl’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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