Editing Levi Eshkol (section)

==Personal life==
Eshkol married three times and had four daughters:
* From his first marriage to Rivka Maharshak (1892–1950), he had a daughter, [[Noa Eshkol|Noa]] (1924–2007). They were divorced in 1927.
* Eshkol married his second wife [[Elisheva Kaplan]] in 1930, with whom he had three daughters: [[Dvora Rafaeli]] (1930–2001), [[Tama Shochat]] and [[Ofra Nevo]].<ref>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1118230.html {{Dead link|date=May 2016}} "Perpetual Motion: Noa Eshkol"</ref> His wife Elisheva died in 1959.
* In 1964 he married [[Miriam Eshkol|Miriam]], a librarian at the Library of the Knesset and 35 years his junior, who died in 2016.

His eldest daughter Noa did not wed. From his second marriage Eshkol had eight grandchildren. His daughter Dvora married [[Eliezer Rafaeli]] and was the mother of three sons, including Prof. [[Sheizaf Rafaeli]]. His daughter Tama married [[Avraham Shochat]], who succeeded him as minister of finance (1992–1996, 1999–2001), and had three children. His youngest daughter Ofra married Prof. [[Baruch Nevo]] and had two sons, including author [[Eshkol Nevo]] who was named after him.

Eshkol had three siblings. His brother Ben-Zion Shkolnik was a [[refusenik]] who made [[aliyah]] in 1964. Two other brothers, Lippa and Emanuel, remained in the [[Soviet Union]]. Emanuel Shkolnik was killed during combat in the Second World War while serving in the [[Red Army]].