The first day of school for children living in WIZO’s Gina Fromer Shelter
The first day of school for children living in WIZO’s Gina Fromer Shelter for Women Victims of Domestic Violence and Their Children, in Central Israel.
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NSW Campaign 2022
Many months in the works, WIZO NSW was delighted to have the foresight to bring Eve Barlow down under. Eve, the outspoken Zionist and journalist, took Sydney by storm. Hundreds of WIZO members and friends had the privilege to hear Eve speak. To the detriment of her own successful musical journalism career, Eve has spent … Read more
Martin Israel visits WIZO’s Raya Jaglom in Tel Aviv
A recent (and regular until Covid!) visitor to WIZO’s Raya Jaglom in Tel Aviv was Martin Israel and his wife Rene and granddaughter Melissa. Martin, who is partially sighted, creates the most beautiful hand crafted toys and other items for the children in WIZO’s care, and delivers them in person, often with family beside him. Martin … Read more
Ride for the Living in Poland
Two students from WIZO Nahalal youth village, Alex and Morad, were selected to participate in the four-day Ride for the Living in Poland this week as part of the village’s Bartali riding program. Ride for the Living brings hundreds of bike riders from around the world together to ride 96 kilometers from the darkness of … Read more
Queens Birthday Honours: Gilla Liberman AM
Gilla Liberman has devoted over 40 years to WIZO and said she is “honoured” to have been recognised with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to the Jewish Community and to women. Her Immediate reaction was shock, and told The Jewish News the award feels like vindication for the … Read more
Implementation of WIZO’s Equal Pay Law
From World WIZO Chairperson Anita Friedman Dear chaverot, Nearly two years ago, I reported to you on a dramatic achievement for WIZO: legislation initiated and intensely lobbied for by us, WIZO’s Equal Pay for Women and Men Bill, was passed into law by the Knesset. The law obligates employers with large work forces to publish an annual report detailing … Read more
Chag “Ha’Nashim” Sameach!
Festival of Weeks (Chag HaShavuot)…Festival of the Harvest (Chag Ha-Katzir)… Day of the First Fruits (Yom Ha-Bikkurim)… but Festival of Women? Shavuot has many names and traditions. One of them is reading Megillat Ruth, a rich text that explores the role of women in Judaism and in society. Ruth’s courage turns the catastrophic famine and … Read more
Ukrainian Refugee Update: It’s WIZO Nachlat Yehuda’s Turn
The days, weeks and months go by, and the war in Ukraine goes on, wreaking death, suffering and destruction on an enormous scale. And here in WIZO, we continue to do our part to embrace young Ukrainians escaping the inferno, taking them into our home, and providing refuge, care and education in our youth villages … Read more
Nahalal Student Wins Prestigious National Biotech Olympics
We are deeply proud to share the news that Maya Etzion, a 12th grade student in WIZO Nahalal, is this year’s champion of the prestigious annual Technion Biotechnology Olympics. Competing with hundreds of contestants from the best high schools around Israel, Maya earned her gold medal with an outstanding research paper based on experiments she … Read more
Founding Members Of Moshav Nahalal
Recently, WIZO Tova member Robyn Kosmin came across a Facebook post which mentioned the Ukrainian students currently living at WIZO Nahalal. Robyn contacted Board Member Rony Bognar OAM and gave her own family history on the true pioneers of WIZO Nahalal,”(Moshav Nahalal) who were her beloved grandparents, Avraham and Esther Machlin. WIZO Nahalal is in … Read more
