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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 ...
Pressure from South African authorities due to Damelin's vocal opposition to the apartheid led to her moving to Israel in her 20s, as a volunteer, during the Six-Day War in June 1967. The war ended soon after she arrived, and she settled in a kibbutz, attending a Hebrew program to learn the language. Soon after, she got married and had two sons ...
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
Vivian Silver (Hebrew: ויויאן סילבר; February 2, 1949 – October 7, 2023) was a Canadian-Israeli peace activist and women's rights activist. [1] She was murdered in the Be'eri massacre , a part of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel .
In total, her fundraising efforts raised around $90 million, around a third of the cost of the war ($275 million). [27] During preparations for this trip, she was issued the first Israeli passport. [28] [32] [33] Over the ten weeks that she was gone, Israel was battered by the war and changed drastically.
Hadassah Associates is founded as the fundraising arm for American men who want to provide support for Hadassah's work. Rebecca Shulman, the only National Board member in Israel during the Six-Day War, is given a seat in the first Hadassah Medical Organization car to travel to the hospital on Mount Scopus immediately after the war ends. For the ...
Hundreds of Jewish peace activists and their allies converged at a major train station in downtown Chicago during rush hour Monday morning, blocking the entrance to the Israeli consulate and ...
[37] Sharoni further stated that the Israeli women's peace movement grew divided following the Oslo Accords in 1993, with the Accords being "interpreted by some women peace activists as an opportunity to become at last part of the Israeli national consensus" and "some women are convinced that the Oslo accords are a step toward a comprehensive ...