WIZO

Beyond Sinai: The Clause That Turned "the Enemy" Into a Name

A peace treaty provision preserving enemy war memorials offers a powerful lesson: peace begins when we stop seeing people across a border as abstractions or enemies, and remember their humanity.

Anat Vidor, president of World WIZO. Her family history is etched onto Israel’s streets and institutions.
 (L-R): Joseph Gitler, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, and Anat Vidor

No. 44: Anat Vidor, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, and Joseph Gitler

Market goers shop at the HER Tel Aviv International Summer Festival in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2026.

Women immigrant-owned businesses featured at massive market at HER Tel Aviv festival

Students participate in the hackathon at WIZO Nachlat Yehuda.

WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot


World WIZO elects new chairperson in Tel Aviv

The new management was elected by the expanded General Assembly of WIZO, which gathered for the 100th anniversary of the organization, an event attended by over a thousand WIZO supporters.

World WIZO Chairperson Mrs. Anita Friedman

Jerusalem Affairs: Peggy Cidor's round-up

There is an update regarding the claim of a buyer of contested real estate located on plots belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church.

AN ANNUAL falafel celebration helps David Dugo Leitner commemorate his mother and his survival

A Heroic Past, an Exciting Future: At 100, WIZO is just getting started

WIZO’s success can only be fully understood in the perspective of time.

WIZO in Strasbourg, 2009

WIZO movement celebrates a century

Chairperson of the World WIZO , Professor Rivka Lazovsky: “Our mission is not yet completed, we continue our vigorous activities, as were laid out in the vision of those founders in 1920”

Chairperson of the World WIZO , Professor Rivka Lazovsky

WIZO celebrates centenary by continuing to go from strength to strength

Entering its centennial year, World WIZO President Esther Mor shares the keys to the success of Israel’s largest social organization.


Safed city engineer compensated with NIS 250,000 for wage discrimination

Cheli Tal worked as the city engineer since 2014, soon after which she discovered that she was being paid considerably less than her male equals working within the municipality.

Tsfat municipality

WIZO – Standing up for the rights of Women

Lazovsky emphasized that the issue of domestic violence concerns men and women alike, from all sectors of Israeli society.

Prof. Rivka Lazovsky, chair of WIZO, is presented an award at The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference.

WIZO Israel hosts emergency meeting following death of Michal Sela

Sela was murdered last Thursday night in her Motza home outside of Jerusalem, seemingly by her husband Eliran Malul, who then attempted to take his own life.

Michal Sela, who was stabbed to death in October 2019.

Grapevine: Wishing Nechama good health

Movers and Shakers, how Israeli people shape the places of this country.

Nechama Rivlin looking through a graphic novel based on The Diary of Anne Frank.

The human spirit: Behind the cloak it’s all about conscience

The speakers represented all three Abrahamic religions, and were remarkably similar in their ethical approaches.

‘CLOAK OF Conscience’: Former deputy president of the Supreme Court Elyakim Rubinstein and artist Anna Chromy stand in front of the newly inaugurated sculpture.