She and Bill Friedman, whom she had known in high school, were married in 1961. In addition to her daughter, Ms Friedman is survived by a granddaughter and a brother, Carl Prince.
Her memoir, “Exile in the Promised Land” (1990), recounts her experiences in Israel politically and personally, including the end of her marriage to Mr. Friedman in 1975.
In the early 1980s, Ms. Friedman divided her time between Israel and the San Francisco Bay Area.
In the United States, she was the founding president of Brit Zedek V’Shalom, Also known as the Jewish Coalition for Justice and Peace, which was founded in 2002. It organized American Jews on behalf of two states negotiating Israeli-Palestinian peace and merged with the advocacy group in 2010. J Street, who carried out that mission.
As she did in Israel, Ms. Friedman devoted much of her time to organizing groups to fight for peace, gay rights and women’s rights in the Bay Area. In her later years she tried to improve the lives of women as she got older. He . was an early member of Ashby Village, a non-profit organization that helps older people who want to live in their homes and neighborhoods—a goal she can empathize with.
As she wrote in her notes for her Bennington reunion at age 72, “I’ve become a gym rat so that I can be strong enough to best withstand the rigors of aging.”