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Questions concerning the need for a new women's rights movement began in the early 1970s, and in 1972, Israel's first radical women's movement was established. Notable events during that era include the establishment of the Ratz political party ("Movement for Civil Rights and Peace") which won four seats in the 1973 Israeli legislative election ...
Marcia Freedman (born 1938) – American-Israeli peace activist, feminist and supporter of gay rights; Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936–2005) – Israeli poet and peace activist; Hagar Rublev (1954–2000) – Israeli peace activist, founder of Women in Black; Ada Yonath (born 1939) – Israeli Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009, pacifist
Women in Israel comprise 50.26 percent of the state's population as of 2019. [5] While Israel lacks an official constitution, the Israeli Declaration of Independence of 1948 states that “The State of Israel (…) will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.”
Ravikovitch was active in the Israeli peace movement. From her home in central Tel Aviv she collaborated with artists, musicians and public figures seeking peace, equality and social justice. During the last years of her life, she suffered from severe bouts of depression. [4] On August 21, 2005, Ravikovitch was found dead in her apartment.
The four women were taken hostage on 7 October from Nahal Oz military base, about a kilometre from Gaza. ... Israeli women soldiers reunited with families. Alice Cuddy - January 25, 2025 at 12:07 ...
Aharoni's poems can be broadly divided into three categories: Peace, Love and Women. Often they overlap, and peace, abolishment of war, equality for women, and the power of women for peace are prominent in her poems. One of her most published peace poems is A Bridge of Peace, a message from an Israeli to a Palestinian woman. Robert Nissenson ...
The New York Times Book Review wrote positively of Six Days of War, [93] as did The Washington Post, which called it "not only the best book so far written on the Six Day War, it is likely to remain the best". [94] Oren's Ph.D. thesis, "The Origins of the Second Arab-Israel War: Israel, Egypt, and the Great Powers, 1952-1956," was published in ...
The two women, along with their husbands, were snatched from their homes in the kibbutz of Nir Oz near the Gaza border during Hamas’ Oct. 7 rampage into southern Israeli communities. Their ...