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“This is Regime Revolution”: Zulat President Zehava Galon at Knesset’s Constitution Committee

Zulat’s President Zehava Galon attended a meeting of the Knesset’s Constitution Committee accompanied by a team of former MKs and ministers, as part of Zulat’s Emergency Call-Up project to fight against the government’s proposed regime revolution and for democracy. The session revolved around Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s proposed reform, in particular the clause dealing with the legal counsels of government ministries and the attempt to turn their jobs into positions of trust and reduce the minister’s obligation to follow their advice.

Galon said: “I am sitting here today, and with me around the table are former MKs who signed up to sit in on Knesset committee sessions in the coming months, MKs from Right, Left, and Center, from all ends of the political spectrum, to fend off the regime revolution you are trying to promote here. Mr. Chairman, the fact that you titled the discussion ‘Zion Shall Be Redeemed With Judgment: Restoring Justice to the Justice System’ and that you are quoting the prophet Isaiah does not turn the looting of democracy into something Jewish. It is anti-Jewish!

“The proposal about the legal counsels must be taken as a package deal. On the table are the opinions of our own Zulat institute, of the Forum of Law Lecturers for Democracy, and of many other organizations sitting here. I propose to the MKs to go over them carefully because they present a different position from the one presented by the justice minister…. What you want to do is to eliminate the entire democratic regime, to carry out a regime revolution. This is not a judicial reform but a regime revolution.”

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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.