The data of the Central Bureau of Statistics indicate enormous wage gaps between men and women, as well as between Jews and Arabs. These have made headlines and caused urgent debates at the Knesset Finance Committee. Not that the gaps…
Category: Gender
Israeli Arab women march through Tel Aviv demanding jobs
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…
Arab Women in Israel: Obstacles to Emancipation
This article is based on a paper that is to appear in Erella Shadmi (editor), Hazon Isha: Nashim Borot Olamot Hadashim (The Vision of Woman: Women Create New Worlds), in Hebrew, 2008. JUST a few yards separate Jisr al-Zarqa from Caesarea.…
It’s me speaking
Nir Nader interviews poet Yudit Shahar (Unless otherwise noted, translations are by Stephen Langfur.) YUDIT SHAHAR arrived at the Challenge office on a Friday morning. She had taken the bus, which got stuck in a huge traffic jam at the entrance to…
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…
Conversation with Farm Worker Kamila Zeidan
THREE MONTHS AGO Kamila Zeidan (40) joined the labor force in Israel’s Arab sector, where only 18.6% of the women work outside the home. Kamila, from Kufr Manda in Galilee, has quickly advanced. She now heads an agricultural work team…
WAC’s International Women’s Day
ON MARCH 8, International Women’s Day, 150 of WAC’s farm workers—Arab women all—marched through Tel Aviv, demanding the right to a job. They were joined by delegates of half a dozen women’s forums and social organizations. The march ended with…
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…