This article, by Naomi Darom, was originally published by The Christian Science Monitor. The 4,000 women gathered at the Qasr el Yahud baptism site in the Jordan River Valley to press for peace were a motley crew: old and young, Palestinian and Israeli, some raising their phones to film the crowd, others holding babies. Many […]
Reuters This article was originally published by The Weekly Wonk and syndicated in TIME. Bill Clinton got the photo op handshake but, in the end, failed. So did Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. John Kerry joins a long list of men — Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, George Mitchell — who have unsuccessfully […]
Anyone who follows Israeli politics has seen a roller coaster summer. Centrist party Kadima joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-led coalition government two months ago; they have since dropped out. The political issue that led to the coalition’s breakup has been disagreement on how to incorporate religious students, long permitted an exemption to study religious […]
In her earlier role as commissioner of the Israeli Prison Service, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Orit Adato used her influence to increase the number of women working in key roles. In this interview from Jaunary 2012, she explains that this was not just done to promote women based on their gender. Rather, she noticed that when […]
The long-standing structure for negotiations within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has involved a limited number of high-level officials. Civil society actors, who are often among the most committed to ending the conflict, have thus been unable to share their perspectives on the core issues and help build societal support for the outcomes. Given the ongoing conflict […]
With over three decades in the Israeli security sector on her resume, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Orit Adato brings a unique perspective to the importance of gender diversity. Through 24 years in command and training positions in the Israeli Defense Forces, she saw how women can contribute to reforms. In this clip from an interview in January […]
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Orit Adato used her position as the head of the Women’s Corps in the Israeli Defense Forces to get more women into important positions. In this clip from January 2012, she explains that the key to her success was finding out what male generals needed to get done, fulfilling that need with […]
This article was originally published by Women’s eNews. A Palestinian-Israeli women’s group that had been pushing for a two-state solution for Israel and the occupied territories can’t offer any comment on the Palestinian Authority’s push for statehood recognition at the United Nations this week. That’s because the group, International Women’s Commission for a Just and […]
Naomi Chazan, former Knesset member, describes the danger of mobilizing women at the grassroots but ignoring the need to get more women into positions of power.
Eti Livni describes how she was able to influence social issues in Israel despite opposition.
