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To save Israel, to change direction toward equality, democracy, and human rights.
Zulat believes in full substantive equality and in the entire range of rights of all human beings: Jews and Arabs, secular and religious, LGBTQs and straights. An Israel that shall be the democratic state of all its citizens regardless of religion, race, and gender is not a dead letter in the Declaration of Independence but a crucial path toward a country that is worth living in.
Israel has for years been led by an extreme and dangerous right wing that advocates Jewish, religious, and messianic supremacy. We are all too familiar with the consequences: the disintegration of democracy, the massacre and barbaric crimes of October 7, a security debacle and disastrous war in the Gaza Strip and in northern Israel, the collapse of Israel’s international status, proceedings in international courts, credit rating downgrading, an economic, academic, and cultural boycott.
The sabotage of basic democratic and humanistic values in Israel is the result of coordinated and intensive action by a network of conservative research institutes and right-wing organizations and politicians. Zulat was established to chart a course toward restoring basic democracy founded on the equality of human values and the protection of human rights.
Zulat is an activist research institute set up to promote a policy of equality and stronger human and civil rights. It was founded in 2020 by Zehava Galon, former leader of the Meretz party and executive director of B’Tselem. Zulat’s uniqueness lies in the ability to coordinate its work in all the arenas where the political struggle takes place: the Knesset, the government, the media, and the street.
It analyzes and presents information, drafts opinion papers, studies, and policy proposals, organizes training courses and educational activities, is active in social platforms and the mainstream media, and interacts with senior political actors and opinion shapers to advance laws for the protection of human rights and to prevent anti-democratic legislation.
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.
