By Noah Kosharek, Haaretz Correspondent Dozens of women, most of them Israeli Arabs, marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Sunday, calling on the government to find them jobs in agriculture. Wafa Tayara from Kafr Kara worked for a contractor…
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Women Hidden from the Eye
On the Status of Widows in Arab-Bedouin Society in Israel Excerpts from a lecture to the Convention on Widowhood in Mediterranean Societies, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, December 3, 2007 Khittam, a 47-year-old widow and mother of three daughters, has no…
Poverty: Meeting Ground for Arab & Jewish Women
The women in Tel Aviv and Nazareth seem at a glance to be poles apart. In Tel Aviv they dress to kill. They study and work in a wide range of fields. They go “out on the town” till the…