At the end of May, a moving solidarity event was held at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv, where for the first time, members of six groups of “Bees for Peace” from across Israel gathered. One group, however, was absent — the women of Jahalin.
Not every day do you have a cosmic experience — but that’s what happened to the women at the biodynamic beekeeping course on April 7th at the Bee Freedom Farm near Jerusalem.
Following her marriage, Wafa Bwirat, 34, from the village Fureidis moved to the small village of Bwirat, nearby. She graduated high school with honors, and wanted to continue studying but had to contribute to the family’s household. In 2008 she worked at a large packing house through a subcontractor, who would skim off a substantial percent of her salary.
[:en]Olwen Maynard has been at CAFOD for over thirty years.
[:en] Anyone who visited Sindyanna of Galilee in Kafr Qana
[:en]The Community Center, Baqa al-Gharbia, 8 March, 2016. “Woman is
[:en]Insaf, 32 years old and mother to two toddlers, works
[:en]The data of the Central Bureau of Statistics indicate enormous
A delegation of activists for social protest from Beit Haam, Tel Aviv, visited the WAC-MAAN headquarters in Baqa al-Gharbiya on January 14, 2012, where they met with Arab women and agricultural workers in order to examine the harsh reality affecting the Arab population under the racist economic policy that drives women out of the labor market.
WAC-MAAN challenges the assertion, made by agriculture sector leaders, that taxing farmers for hiring foreign workers would not persuade them to give jobs to Israelis instead. The union claims that farmers prefer Thai workers, who are cheaper.
