WIZO

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

Building Israel through diplomacy, lawfare, and food rescue.

 (L-R): Joseph Gitler, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, and Anat Vidor
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

WIZO Sweden President Susanne Sznajderman-Rytz.

WIZO Sweden president to receive royal medal for advancing Yiddish recognition


War times impact survivors of domestic abuse emotionally and financially - study

The research showed that the personal trauma, compounded with the collective trauma of the war, created a situation of overload and an accumulation of stressors and difficulties.

A protester holding an "Abuse isn't Love" sign at a protest against violence against women in Tel Aviv

Grapevine, January 19 2024, Talking Turkey with a vengeance

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Dr. Nina Nordstrom, ambassador of Finland with MDA Director-General Eli Bin.

WIZO Battered Women’s Shelter celebrates 40th anniversary

WIZO and government officials, formerly sheltered women and children speak. 200,000 women and 500,000 child domestic violence victims annually.

 Workers in the daycare educational system   protest in Tel Aviv, demanding better working conditions. October 3, 2021

Young Israeli chess champions crowned amid rocket fire

The champions will get the chance to represent Israel at the World Championship and European Championship.

 Six of the champions from the chess championship for young Israelis.

Grapevine January 18, 2023: Saturday night live

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 DANEL JAFFE breaks a glass at his wedding as his bride, Roni, his mother, Tamar (in blue), the bride’s mother, Yael Levin, and the groom’s father, Zalli Jaffe, look on.

Grapevine September 16, 2022: A cherry blossom swan song

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MICHAL HERZOG chats with a lone soldier.

Celebrity memorabilia sale's proceeds donated to women's shelters

In a joint initiative by WIZO, eBay and Gett Delivery, celebrities are auctioning off personal memorabilia in order to raise funds for women's shelters.

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli

By 2121, WIZO hopes gender disparity is no longer an issue

“If we do our job correctly, [by 2121], it should not be an issue anymore - not race, not religion, not gender,” said World WIZO CEO Anita Friedman.

 Anita Friedman, CEO, World WIZO

WIZO head: Shira Isakov is just one case

JPost One-on-One Zoomcast, Episode 32 - Tamar Beeri with Anita Friedman, chairperson of WIZO Worldwide: Friedman said that violence in the family is a "silent pandemic."

SHIRA ISAKOV (right) arrives earlier this week for a Beersheba court hearing of Aviad Moshe, who tried to murder her in Mitzpe Ramon a few months ago.

WIZO and LA philanthropists partner to open Tel Aviv day care center

The alliance between the Nazarian Foundation and WIZO is the culmination of a relationship going back to Israel's earliest days, in the 1950s.

Esther Mor, President, World WIZO  Dr. Sharon Nazarian, President of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation  Soraya Nazarian, co-Founder of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation  Anita Friedman, Chairperson, World WIZO