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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.

|ByANAT VIDOR, WORLD WIZO
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

Building Israel through diplomacy, lawfare, and food rescue.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

“We really want to show the diversity and the connection and the love for Israel,” HER Tel Aviv founder and CEO Sivan Hadari said.

|BySAM HALPERN
Students participate in the hackathon at WIZO Nachlat Yehuda.

WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot

For the students, many of whom remain closely connected with friends and family in their countries of origin, the issue is not abstract.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

WIZO and Wikimedia Israel launch competition to promote Israeli women online

Collaboration aims to add, recognize, 150 female Israeli figures to Wikipedia.

MARCH 24, 2015ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Prof. Rivka Lazovsky, chairwoman of WIZO World Executive.

Here and There: The elections merry-go-round... and its consequential fallout

There can be no doubt that the current electoral system we ‘enjoy’ in Israel will continue to provide governments that simply cannot govern.

DECEMBER 18, 2014ByBRENDA KATTEN
Elections in Israel

The Human Spirit: Being Malke Bina

You couldn’t help absorbing how much Rabbanit Bina loved this material. Torah study is always far more than the material on the page.

OCTOBER 2, 2014ByBARBARA SOFER
Malka Bina sits in the library of the institute she founded, the Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Torah Studies.

And the most sexist advertisement of 2013 is…

Sano Jet's campaign depicting 2 small girls competing over who has the perfect housewife mother, taking women's rights back 50 years, according to WIZO.

MARCH 5, 2014ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Still from Sano Jet commercial

Kibbutz Dafna worker bitten by viper

Weekly wrap-up of local news around the country.

JANUARY 30, 2014ByTAMARA ZIEVE
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WIZO conference tackles challenges facing women’s leadership

Through training, idea exchanges, skill building, plenary will focus on tools for recruiting, especially younger women of “Generation Y.”

JANUARY 21, 2014ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
WIZO LEADERS (from left) Jana Falic, president of WIZO USA; Prof. Rivka Lazovsky, chairwoman of the World WIZO executive; Tova Ben-Dov, president of World WIZO; and Ruth Rappaport, co-chairwoman of the International Council of WIZO

Finding their own strength

The Beit Ruth educational and therapeutic village sets at-risk girls on productive path.

DECEMBER 5, 2013ByHAYLEY MUNGUIA
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72% don’t trust police to protect women, children from domestic violence

According to WIZO survey, half of all Israelis know at least one woman who experiences violence of any kind from her husband.

NOVEMBER 25, 2013ByDANIELLE ZIRI
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WIZO submits bill for the establishment of domestic violence courts in Israel

There are currently over 300 such specialized courts operating in countries around the world.

NOVEMBER 18, 2013ByDANIELLE ZIRI
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Attention, talent(s)

Défilé de fin d’études pour les élèves de la Wizo, l’école de design de Haïfa. Audace et maturité étaient au rendez-vous.

JULY 4, 2013ByMYRIAM KALFON
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