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Zulat is an Action tank based on policy research established to protect human rights, fight all forms of exclusion and discrimination, and steer the country toward democracy, freedom, and equality. Promoting a broad view of human rights that sees all rights as interconnected and mutually binding, it develops and builds the moral-ideological foundation that is indispensable for the existence of substantive democracy in order to reinforce the core values on which the State of Israel was founded.
Israel’s government is not only weakening democratic institutions, but is in effect creating a new populist and violent state infrastructure aimed at eroding the foundations of democracy and dismantling the human value of commitment to morality and justice. Alongside the restriction of individual freedoms, oppression of minorities, and deepening of the occupation and annexation in the territories, these actions lead the democratic camp to despair and to believe that their struggle is lost and that action is pointless.
We believe that the only way to protect equality, liberty, minority rights, and democracy is to stop playing defense and instead present a comprehensive vision and alternative policy. To this end, we engage experts and researchers from various disciplines to write policy papers and enlist opinion leaders and former elected officials to fight racist and anti-democratic initiatives, rhetoric, and legislation, so that the vow contained in our Declaration of Independence that “Israel will be the
democratic state of all its citizens, regardless of religion, race, or sex“ does not become a dead letter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
