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Israeli women's rights activists have long said the country pays too little attention to domestic violence. And things have only worsened with the pandemic.
New museum to showcase the women who helped build Israel
‘There’s nothing quite like Israel in the world and nothing quite like the women of Israel,’ says founder of the Israeli Women Museum.
“Shomeret” (Watchwoman) by Haya Graetz Ran. Photo by Boaz Lanir
How many “she-roes” of Israel can you name?
Maybe you’d start with Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister. Or the tragic and courageous spy Sarah Aaronsohn and paratrooper Hannah Senesh.
The list would include physician Vera Weizmann, the first First Lady of Israel, who helped establish Chaim Sheba Medical Center, now the largest hospital in the Middle East; and second First Lady Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, who taught Jerusalem women how to grow vegetables, milk cows and make cheese so their husbands could go out and build the state.
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Charity Benefit Honors Marion Wiesel On Her 90th Birthday
Charity Benefit Honors Marion Wiesel On Her 90th Birthday
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At a virtual celebration honoring her 90th birthday that also served as a benefit for the Beit Tzipora Centers that serve Ethiopian children in Israel, Marion Wiesel collected felicitations from a lineup that included Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Colin Powell, Mayim Bialik, and Natan Sharansky.
In 1986, after Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for being “a messenger to mankind,” French President Francois Mitterrand asked his friend and Wiesel’s wife Marion what they planned to do with the prize money.