July 21st 2009
Seven months into 2009, it looks like the wave of tragic wife murders that plagued the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel for the past 10 years is over. With six murders in 2006, three in 2007, one in 2008 and one so far in 2009, it seems the trend is clear. A report [...]
July 14th 2009
SHATIL’s Back from the Edge project focuses on immigrant youth at risk but in some communities, the parents get as much benefit as the children.
Marina immigrated from the Former Soviet Union four years ago with her son, Kiril, then 15. Neither knew a word of Hebrew. They settled in Lod, but Kiril missed [...]
July 14th 2009
“The Arrangements Law must become a thing of the past,” Prof. Yitzhak Galnor told a dozen Knesset members and more than 100 activists gathered at a June 30 Knesset conference organized by the SHATIL-coordinated Forum to Abolish the Arrangements Law.
The gathering, “From Critical Discourse to Civic Strength”, aimed to spur a meaningful discussion [...]
July 7th 2009
Yizhar Reshef, z”l
This update on SHATIL’s environmental work is dedicated to the memory of Yizhar Reshef, prominent environmental activist and founding member and director of the Public Health Coalition who died June 24 at the age of 37. The Public Health Coalition was established by SHATIL and is now an independent, prize-winning organization [...]
