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Palestinian protestor in December 1987. Palestinian women played significant roles in leading and organising the First Intifada, from 1987 to 1991. [1] Xanthe Scharff of Foreign Policy wrote that the First Intifada was a "largely nonviolent Palestinian struggle" that was "a collective social, economic, and political mobilisation led by women."
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 female soldiers were all abducted from the Nahal Oz base during the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel which sparked the war in the region after more than 1,200 Israelis were killed and ...
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 ...
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Choking back tears and shaking with anger, families and supporters of Israeli women and girls held captive by Hamas in Gaza lashed out at global women's rights groups on Monday ...
Women in Black staging a protest in New Paltz, New York. Women in Black (Hebrew: נשים בשחור, romanized: Nashim BeShahor) is a women's anti-war movement with an estimated 10,000 activists around the world. The first group was formed by Israeli women in Jerusalem in 1988, following the outbreak of the First Intifada. [1]
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