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…
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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…
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…
FNV Officials Study Israel’s Labor Market
THREE OFFICIALS from FNV, the largest trade union confederation in the Netherlands, recently met with Arab women at their jobs on an Israeli farm. The jobs had been organized by the Workers Advice Center (WAC), to which the women belong.…
Health and the Arabs in Israel
Between Official Negligence and Popular Unawareness “The Palestinian minority in Israel has a shorter life span than the Jewish majority, is sicker, and has less access, physical and financial, to health services and health-supporting conditions (sanitation, water, electricity, roads).” The…
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…
Persimmons and Empowerment
ON INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day, March 8, 2007, a group of Arab women will march down a Tel Aviv avenue. All are farm laborers organized by the Workers Advice Center (WAC-Ma’an). Israeli feminists and leftists will join them. The aim of…
Women Demonstrate for Jobs
ON International Women’s Day, March 8, 2006, people passing the new government office tower in Tel Aviv paused for a strange sight. A hundred women, Arab workers and Jewish activists, stood on the sidewalk with signs proclaiming: “Women want to…
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…
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…