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How Does the Police Suppress Women’s Right to Protest? Webinar in Partnership with “Mechazekim”

On November 17, 2025, a webinar was held in partnership with “Mechazekim”, on the topic of violence against women during protests. Opening remarks were delivered by Einat Ovadia, CEO of Zulat, and Mai Atar, Deputy CEO of Mechazekim and one of the leaders of the women’s protest for the return of the hostages.

Adv. Nitzan Caspi Shiloni, co-author of Zulat’s policy paper “Gender-Biased Violence at Protests” and a researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute, described five patterns of offences by the police and explained why they deter women from going out to protest.

MK Naama Lazimi, Chair of the Lobby Against Police Violence, spoke about police violence she experienced firsthand, and the differential treatment she receives from the police at protests, compared to her colleague MK Gilad Kariv.

Former MK Adv. Gaby Lasky, one of the founders of the Detainees’ Support Network, spoke about the violence against women she was exposed to in the course of her activities. She detailed and explained when, according to the law, a body search may be conducted.

Paz Tzemach, a social activist and social media manager for the Pink Front and the Democrats Party, courageously recounted the arrest she experienced at one of the protests and the partial strip search she was forced to undergo.

Nadine Abu Laban, a Haaretz journalist, spoke about practices used to suppress protest among Arab citizens and their fear of going out to demonstrate.

Watch (Hebrew, no Subtitles):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS4_wOcWdmw

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.