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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
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.
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.”
[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 ...
Israeli television aired previously withheld footage on Wednesday of five pyjama-clad female army conscripts being seized by Hamas gunmen during the Oct. 7 raid that triggered the Gaza war.
In March 2017, at an International Women's Day reception in Tel Aviv, more than a dozen foreign female ambassadors pledged their support for the Women Wage Peace movement. [23] The Israeli music network Constant Culture announced May 13, 2017 that they had created an EDM compilation album in support of peace, with all proceeds going to Women ...
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 ...