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Inbar Haiman (Courtesy)
September 10, 2025, 8:20 pm
‘She was killed and left there’: Inbar Haiman’s family demands right to bury her
‘Her mother needs a grave to go to, to speak to her daughter, to light a candle when she needs to,’ aunt Hannah Cohen says
By Jessica Steinberg
Angelika Sher's photographic work, part of the Fifth Mediterranean Biennale and 'Anybody Home?' exhibit at Wizo Haifa through March 2024 (Courtesy)
January 25, 2024, 4:51 pm
Reconfigured after October 7, Haifa Biennale uses art to work through trauma and loss
Video art installations are focus of Mediterranean art show at Wizo Haifa; beeswax soldiers are lined up at Artists’ House
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: A protest against violence against women in Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
November 3, 2023, 11:32 am
Women in abusive homes fear for their safety as war leads to relaxed gun licensing
175,000 firearm license applications filed since Oct. 7 as Ben Gvir eases restrictions; forum calls for those with domestic violence complaints against them to be ineligible
By Shira Silkoff
From Hilla Ben-Ari's video 'Seed,' for Videonale #1 in Haifa, through June 2023 (Courtesy Mediterranean Biennale)
June 1, 2023, 1:34 am
Haifa artworks can be seen on the way to work (or school)
Curators launch Videonale, the first video biennale focused on female art
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone: Photos of War in Ukraine' by Pavel Wolberg, November 22 through January 22 in the art gallery of Wizo Haifa (Courtesy Pavel Wolberg)
November 12, 2022, 12:54 pm
Photographer’s images of Ukraine bear witness to war zone
Russian-born Israeli Pavel Wolberg’s new exhibit in Haifa of Russia’s previous incursion foreshadows the 2022 war
By Jessica Steinberg
Members of the Subsidized Daycare Forum hold a press conference, at Hamacabia Village in Ramat Gan, on July 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 24, 2022, 4:58 pm
Subsidized daycare centers threaten to keep their doors closed come September
Histadrut chief urges Lapid to intervene: ‘10,000 toddlers will be left without a daycare center this year’
By Tobias Siegal
Ultra-Orthodox protesters vandalize an election poster of Jerusalem mayor candidate MK Rachel Azaria in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on July 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 3, 2019, 9:40 am
Feminist campaign hits Jerusalem buses to compensate for defaced mayoral posters
After ultra-Orthodox vandalized her mayoral banners last summer, Rachel Azaria launches ‘I dream’ drive which envisions society without discrimination against women
By Stuart Winer
Kindergarten children in their classroom.(Edi Israel/Flash90)
September 3, 2018, 8:59 am
Daycare strike ends as sides agree on bonuses, more workers
Staff to get NIS 1,500 extra for holidays; Welfare Ministry will look into streamlining training to bring Israel in line with caretaker-child ratio in rest of developed world
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative image of a victim of sexual harassment holding a note with the text 'me too.' (nito100/iStock by Getty Images)
November 8, 2017, 1:27 pm
Spike seen in Israeli women reporting sexual abuse after #MeToo
Groups note increase in calls to rape crisis centers following social media campaign and celebrity testimonies
By ToI Staff
Family members collect belongings after hurricane force winds destroyed their house in Toa Baja, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 24, 2017 following the passage of Hurricane Maria. (AFP PHOTO / Ricardo ARDUENGO)
October 4, 2017, 6:48 am
Jewish group flies aid to San Juan, gets stranded man to son’s wedding
UJA-Federation of New York brings food, water and other supplies to ‘desperate’ Puerto Rico, gives firefighter who had been stuck on island ride back
By JTA
WIZO's Women and their Olive Trees exhibit logo
February 26, 2017, 6:04 pm
Jewish group cancels Brazil exhibit after theft of paintings by Israeli women
35 works by Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Druze artists, conveying message of coexistence, nicked en route from Sao Paulo to Rio
By JTA
Rolene Marks
February 13, 2015, 10:32 am
Rolene Marks
A WIZO Woman’s right to choose
The WIZO screening of ’50 Shades of Grey’ has some peoples’ knickers in a knot, but we believe what you watch is up to you
A scene from '50 Shades of Grey' (YouTube screenshot)
February 9, 2015, 10:33 pm
WIZO to screen ’50 Shades’ in controversial fundraiser
While the event attempts to attract young women to the organization, longtime supporters worry about damage to its reputation
By Darryl Egnal
Dozens of women taking part in the annual march marking International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, on November 25, 2014. (Photo credit: Amir Levy/FLASH90)
November 25, 2014, 11:14 pm
In year of war, rise in domestic violence complaints seen
Some 65 reports filed a day, according to WIZO study; Knesset speaker says legal measures insufficient
By Marissa Newman
Israeli singer Achinoam Nini in the Israeli Knesset during a meeting between Palestinian officials and Israeli ministers and members of Knesset, July 31, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 29, 2014, 10:33 am
Politics said to nix Achinoam Nini show
Singer’s manager accuses sponsor WIZO of ostracizing her over her support for Israeli-Arab coexistence
By Simone Somekh
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