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Interior Committee Discussion: Government Policy on Refugees From Ukraine

One month into the war in Ukraine, the Knesset’s Interior and Environmental Protection Committee held a special discussion about the government’s policy regarding the absorption of refugees. The debate was requested by MK Gabi Lasky (Meretz) and MK Ron Katz (Yesh Atid), and committee’s chairman MK Walid Taha (Raam) acceded to their request. Many MKs voiced the opinion that Israel should ease the restrictions on the entry of refugees into Israel and treat them with respect and compassion.

Zulat’s Executive Director Einat Ovadia presented Zulat’s position:

“The guiding principle should be a humanitarian attitude toward the people who come here. These are human beings with unique circumstances, requirements, and necessities. We propose to treat them with sensitivity, and to take into account gender, age, health condition, and accessibility. Solutions have been found for some of these issues, but somebody must oversee it. Looking at them as quotas and numbers distances us from their emotional state of mind. They fled the war but their basic needs, such as education and food, are not over. Is anyone checking that a solution is found for people with disabilities? The majority are women and children. Is anybody checking that they have not been subjected to exploitation or trafficking?”

Watch Einat Ovadia’s full remarks:

 

Read more:

>> Position paper submitted to the committee: “Accepting Refugees From Ukraine: Government’s Plan Illegal and Immoral”

 

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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.