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Where are we headed?

>> Read all messages from Zehava Galon

Shalom,

Though it feels sad this year too, Rosh Hashanah is a good time to ask: Where are we headed? The question becomes all the more critical in light of the deliberate abandonment of the hostages who are still alive by a ruthless government waging a war of destruction against the Palestinians and pushing the army to occupy Gaza. It is also the question that many Israelis have been asking themselves throughout this past awful year, as disaster follows disaster, mourning follows loss, and grief follows pain. Truly, one can no longer enumerate the long list of calamities this government has brought upon us. It is hard to breathe in the face of the harsh images, sorrowful news, and yawning gap between them and the monstrous indifference of Netanyahu and his allies  toward human life and the suffering they are causing for the sake of “real estate in Gaza.”

Where are we going? Honestly, it depends on us. Though the atmosphere is not festive, the Jewish New Year still carries with it a message of hope and change. We are on the eve of an election year and a chance to start repairing Israel. Even if Netanyahu tries to sabotage the elections, manipulate them, and distort the results, there is a huge public here that will stand up to his efforts and ensure the elections are as should be: free, fair, and secret.

At Zulat, we intend to continue fighting against initiatives and laws that threaten democracy. Your support for us will enable us to begin a process of repair, rehabilitation, and healing. This is possible and within reach, and it can still be good here.

I wish you, your family, and friends that we should all live to see a proper democracy that ends the war, brings back the hostages, and establishes peace, equality, and justice.

Yours,

Zehava Galon

President of Zulat

 

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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.