WIZO

World WIZO president at Jerusalem Post summit

“Zionism is a shift in consciousness from passive existence to taking ownership of our own destiny”

World WIZO President Anat Vidor
Anat Vidor, president of World WIZO. Her family history is etched onto Israel’s streets and institutions.

Meet Anat Vidor’s vision for World WIZO

Female IDF combat soldiers.

Israelis value women’s wartime role but cite major representation gap, WIZO study finds

WIZO in Strasbourg, 2009

'Rebuilding Israeli society': WIZO opens annual Meeting of Representatives in Tel Aviv


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.

What was the sexist Israeli ad in 2018?

WIZO also crowns its top offending commercial of the decade ahead of International Women's Day.

A screenshot from the Castro commercial 'Where is the dress from?'

Here and There: Are we a people who look a gift horse in the mouth?

Yechiel Eckstein was a man who recognized the urgent necessity to help Jews in need – in Israel and throughout the world.

AGLOW CHIEF of strategic services Kay Rogers poses with an IDF border policeman in Metulla.

The Lounge

The Weizmann Institute recently held its scientific club at the Sheva Event Hall in Tel Aviv.

DANIEL ZAJFMAN (left) and Ben Caspit

WIZO’s global partners

Arriving in Israel for the annual Meeting of Representatives, four international WIZO federation presidents weigh in on the challenges of being 21st-century female Zionist leaders in the Diaspora.

World WIZO chairwoman, Prof. Rivka Lazovsky (right) at the WIZO Olive Tree exhibition

Keren Hayesod gets new chairman

Unlike the previous Keren Hayesod chairman Eliezer (Moodi) Sandberg, who resigned over allegations in the “Case 3000” submarine affair, Grundwerg is not a politician but a professional appointment.

Sam Grundwerg

Lone Soldiers to receive grant at ceremony honoring their service

The Jewish Agency's WINGS program helps released soldiers take their first steps as civilians with grants provided by Keren Hayesod.

An IDF soldier

Head of WIZO World Organization: For women, against violence

Prof. Rivka Lazovsky calls on government to work to eradicate violence, prevent domestic murder: ‘How can we continue to live like this?’

RIVKA LAZOVSKY visits a WIZO day-care center on the first day of school

WIZO launches graduate association

A network of alumni from WIZO’s schools and youth villages will serve as a new volunteer body working for the improvement of Israeli society.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Brig.-Gen. (res.) David Suissa, former chief artillery officer and chairman of the WIZO Graduate Association; Eden Harel, MC; MK Shelly Yacimovich; Danny Atar, KKL-JNF chairman; Prof. Rivka Lazovsky, World WIZO chairperson; Oshra Yosef Friedman, chairwoman of the Authority for the Adv

The people’s chair

Presiding over World WIZO, a network of 800 projects serving hundreds of thousands of children, youth and women across Israel, chairperson Rivka Lazovsky is in the business of changing lives

RIVKA LAZOVSKY visits a WIZO day-care center on the first day of school