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


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.

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.

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.

Still from Sano Jet commercial

Kibbutz Dafna worker bitten by viper

Weekly wrap-up of local news around the country.

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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.”

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘1 in 4 kids go to bed without a story’

Most children prefer games or television to books, WIZO survey for National Book Week finds.

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