Custody and Parental Rights; Single Mothers; Welfare Policies; Courts’ Rulings
WP Session 2018
Pregnancy and Birth in the Third Millennium
The 97th session of Women Parliament was held on February 23, 2018 in kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot and discussed the issues of pregnancy and birth in the third millennium.
Greeting were given by – Yoram Israeli, head of Mateh Asher regional council, Nili Alon, gender advisor for Mateh Asher regional council, host and organizer of the session, Anat Livnat, chairwoman of the gender advisors association and a member of Shin management and Carmit Peleg, Mateh Asher youth center manager
Speakers at the session were:
Dr. Hanna Shapira – gynecologist specializing in genetics.
Suheila Ghanem – senior midwife, psychotherapist and instructing director in Ziv delivery rooms in Zefat.
Dassi Elad – doula, author of Belly Stories, administrator of Active Birth group on Facebook (15k members) and manager of a women’s clinic.
Sivan Lienhart – leading member of Nashim Kor’ot Laledet association (‘Women giving birth/calling for birth’).
Roni Tene-Cohen – certified midwife, a BOT (birth-oriented therapy) therapist, working in women’s clinics and co-founded the natural birth delivery room in Galilee Medical Center.
Sagit Brami – co-founder of Dear Mom association, supporting women with postpartum or pregnancy depression and mental struggles, working to raise public awareness to this issue.
Ayelet Ori Benita performed live music.
WP Session 2016
Community’s Engagement in Minors’ Walefare
Women’s Parliament Session No. 94 was held in cooperation with the A.L.I.A association and was the third conference dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Marina Solodkin. The conference was held on 12.09.2016 at the Bat-Yam auditorium.
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No to abolishing the tender years doctrine without an adequate legal alternative
The 92nd conference of Women’s Parliament was held on Monday, 6/6/2016, in cooperation with the municipality of Rishon Lezion, Rackman Center and the Association of the Women Advisors on the Status of Women in the Municipal Authorities. The conference was an emergency conference, which discussed the possibility currently being examined by the Ministry of Justice to abolish the tender year’s doctrine. The conference dealt with the implications of abolishing the doctrine and the expected results, the existing and desired legal and social situation, and the legal alternatives that will promote equality.
The conference was attended by: Iris Kagan Hachmon – advisor to the Mayor of Rishon Lezion on the status of women and. gender equality, Prof. Ruth Halperin Qadri – head of the Rackman Center at Bar Ilan University, attorney Dana Eisner-Lavi – director of Urban Women’s Rights Center, Dr. Ruth Levenstein Lazar – director of the Meshane Center at the College of Management Academic Studies, social worker Mira Shaham – former head of the welfare department of the western region, attorney Ariel Dror – from the office of attorney Ariel Dror and Co., Prof. Daphna Hacker – the Law Faculty and Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University, Buba Levi – founder and co-director of the group “The Feminine Voice “, attorney Noam Shoval – facilitator of the Family Law Clinic, Law School, the College of Management Academic Studies, Anat Livnat – member of the Women’s Parliament Advisory Committee and chairwoman of the Association of the Women Advisors on the Status of Women, and Prof. Esther Hertzog – co-chairwoman of the SHIN movement and coordinator of Women’s Parliament.
In the conference, a platform was given to experts and social and feminist activists to voice their opinions and stances, in order to reach an appropriate legal alternative to the tender years doctrine. The conclusion was one: You cannot abolish the tender year’s doctrine without a proper legal alternative!
Prof. Esther Herzog, chairwoman of the SHIN movement and coordinator of Women’s Parliament explained that, “the violent acts of men to silence the feminist voice will not deter us; we will continue to fight for the welfare of our children without compromise. The best interest of children, particularly of young children, is to stay, during a divorce in which there is no agreement between the parents, with the parent who was taking care of them during the years prior to the divorce. In the Israeli reality, the vast majority of young children are being taken care of primarily by their mothers. We are acting towards changing this reality, so that men and women, mothers and fathers will share equally in caring for their children, and that both men and women will receive equal opportunities regarding occupations and wages in the labor market. We also strive to change the nature of the labor market and unions, who over the years have become more and more exploitative and against the family system, and therefore, also against the best interests of children”.
WP Session 2015
Child’s best interests, his voice and rights
Women’s Parliament Session No. 91 was held in cooperation with the A.L.I.A association and was the second conference dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Marina Solodkin. The conference was held on 18.8.2015 at the “The Council for a Beautiful Israel” conference hall at Hayarkon Park Tel- Aviv.
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WP Session 2014
The future is already here: A different society is possible
The 80th session took place in Tel Aviv in May 14th 2014.
Women’s Parliament and the “Sister” movement are proud and happy to present two feminist and independent thinkers:
Genevieve Vaughan – an Italian-American who developed the Gift Economy
Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth – from Germany, who researched past and present matriarchal societies
Greetings:
Shula Keshet, “Sister” movement
Professor Esther Hertzog, “Women’s Parliament”
First session:
New thought – Dr. Arela Shadmi, moderator and opening words
Gift Economy and criticism on Trade Economy – Genevieve Vaughan
Matriarchy: Society, economy, politics and spirituality – Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth
Response: Yosefa Tabib-Kalif, chairwoman of “Sister”
Second session:
Possible implementations – Dr. Arela Shadmi, moderator and opening words
Stages on the way to Gift Economy – Genevieve Vaughan
The way to an egalitarian society – Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth
Response: Asma Agbaria, executive member of Da’am Workers Party and WAC organization
WP Session 2013
Motherhood, mothers and daughters
The 77th session was hosted in Lohamei HaGeta’ot in October 10th 2013.
Opening – Dina and Liron Lindman – Mother and daughter sing and play
Greetings:
Moshe Davidovitch, CEO of Mateh Asher Regional Council
Nili Alon, advisor to the head of the regional council on the status of women
Ofra Elkayam-Cohen, chairwoman of Na’amat, Upper Galilee region
Sarin Angel, chairwoman of the SHIN movement for the equal representation of women
Motherhood and mother-daughter relationships – moderator: Idit Bermanis, workshops for women’s empowerment and group moderator
Participants:
Culture as a barrier between mothers and daughters – Professor Ariela Friedman, head of the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Arts and Society, Netanya, author of “Connected: mothers and daughters”
Thoughts about the desire for non-motherhood – Orna Donath, doctoral student at the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at the Tel-Aviv University
About stolen motherhood and art as an option for social change – Mali De-Kalo, multidisciplinary artist and art lecturer at Kibbutzim College
The status of mothers according to religious law and civil law, and the connection to culture – Sana Kheir, Attorney (senior deputy to the North District Attorney until recently)
“To be reborn in Puglia” – Three daughters tell about their mothers’ birthing experience after the Holocaust – Professor Yael Katzir, historian and documentary filmmaker.
WP Session 2005
The “Tender-Age Care”
The first session of 2005 took place in November. It took place in Tel Aviv and was hosted by Smadar Sinai, the head of the Women’s unit in the Kibbutz movement. Dr. Orly Binyamin convened the discussion and the panelists were: a “Mother”, Aviv Yahalom (a Father), Dr. Rona Schuz, Adv. Tagrid Jachshan, Dr. Odeda Peled and Prof. Smadar Lavie.
This session took place on the background of establishing the Schnit committee, by Tzipi Livni (minister of Justice) who instructed its members to consider changing the existing clause of “tender-age care”. Men’s organizations were trying to avoid this session from taking place, using threats and slanders. The mother’s testimony as well as the analyses that were presented in the event demonstrated and elaborated on the severe implications of changing the law. Findings of studies and personal evidence were presented as indicating the long-term disastrous outcomes that children and mothers went through as a result of the change and the endorsement of “equal parenthood” practices.