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


Coronavirus pandemic deals fatal blow to Israel's working women

“Women went back tens of years during the coronavirus pandemic to traditional, household roles."

Women take part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York, U.S., March 8, 2017

Netanyahu, Clinton, Clooney celebrated Elie Wiesel's wife 90th birthday

To honor her living legacy and visionary work alongside her husbands, a virtual event was organized by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and the WIZO.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel arrives with wife, Marion Erster Rose, to attend the "100 Most Influential People In The World" gala hosted by Time Magazine in New York

With domestic violence rising amid COVID-19, what will the gov't do?

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: ‘You ignore some of the warning signs’

ACTIVISTS PROTEST against recent cases of violence against women at Habima Square in Tel Aviv last week.

Zionist orgs demand changes to WZC coalition agreement

The organizations said that a new “wall-to-wall” coalition agreement was needed “in a spirit of peace and agreement” between all parties of the congress.

World Zionist Congress 2020

WIZO head to attend Abraham Accord signing ceremony

During her mission to the US from Israel, Mor will meet with representatives of North America's Jewish community to discuss the social situation in Israel.

Esther Mor, head of World WIZO

Legislative committee approves bill for gender salary equality

According to the bill, employers who employ over 100 employees will be forced by law to publish an annual report detailing the differences in salary between women and men in the organization.

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

Husband arrested after 40-year-old woman is stabbed to death in Tayibe

A medical team arrived on the scene and found the woman unconscious with stab wounds. They stopped her bleeding and performed CPR, but they were not able to revive her.

Women block King George St. in Tel Aviv in protest against government inaction concerning domestic violence

Dawn of a new WIZO

Anita Friedman, the newly-elected head of WIZO – the Women’s International Zionist Organization – brings a fresh and refreshing vigor to her new role as leader of the organization.

World WIZO Chairperson Mrs. Anita Friedman

The history of WIZO and Tu Bishvat

The connection between the Jewish New Year for the Trees and WIZO can be further illustrated through the following Tu Bishvat related stories.

SOWING SEEDS: The WIZO of the 1920s birthed the WIZO Executive of 2020. (Top: Kfir Sivan; Bottom: Court

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