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…
Tag: Arab women
Dialogue with a cactus in a cottage cheese tub
The Bread and Roses art exhibition, in its sixth year, is the result of joint efforts by the Workers Advice Center (WAC-MAAN), Sindyanna of Galilee, and Hanitzotz Publishing House, and it is generously hosted by the Minshar School of Art in Tel…
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.…
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…
On National Service for Arabs
FOR DECADES ISRAEL has justified the unequal status of its Arab citizens, who now compose 19% of the population (1.4 million), by pointing out that they do not serve in the army. This claim is easily dispelled. Many Bedouin do…
Bread and Roses II: The Invisible Force
About 1200 people visited the gallery of the Minshar School in south Tel Aviv on November 10, 2007. Here, for the second straight year, Bamat Etgar held the art sale known as “Bread and Roses.” The walls were filled with…
The Prison Within
AS THE CAMERA stalks Hebron in search of a story about the Occupation, it encounters oppression of another kind. New levels are discovered, things not foreseen. The film is Asurot (officially and badly translated as “Detained”; the single Hebrew word, with rich…
Baskets are “in”
DURING THE SHAVUOT holiday, Bamat Etgar hosted a basketry bazaar. Its modest hall in south Tel Aviv filled up, as by magic, with baskets woven by Arab women, graduates of courses in Kufr Qara and Nazareth. Natural scents and colors…
Not in Anybody’s Pocket Any More!
What motivates a farm worker like me, after a hard day’s work in the sun, to go out and wage an election campaign that demands much time and energy? The answer is that the belief in what I’m doing causes…