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WIZO’s Anat Vidor at NY conference: “Be the Zionist in your community”

Vidor told the 2026 Jerusalem Post New York Conference that Zionism is not a slogan or an abstract ideal, but a lived responsibility

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COOPERATION WITH WORLD WIZO
Anat Vidor, World WIZO President.
World WIZO President Anat Vidor. A biography that reads like the story of Zionism.

The civilian army: Anat Vidor and the quiet power of WIZO

“Give power to civil society. Because otherwise we will teeter on the edge of totalitarianism. Not instead of the government. Alongside it.”

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN, IN COLLABORATION WITH WIZO
WORLD WIZO president Anat Vidor (3rd from left) with members of the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

Grapevine, May 8, 2026: A special Shabbat treat

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Anat Vidor, president of World WIZO. Her family history is etched onto Israel’s streets and institutions.

Israel can no longer afford the privileges of adolescent behavior

The solution lies in translating civil heroism into formal power. We must demand strict gender parity across the board

|ByANAT VIDOR, IN COLLABORATION WITH WIZO

Israel, superpower for women

In the IDF, female soldiers and officers can take on any position without discrimination, and a woman has reached the rank of general for the first time.

JANUARY 17, 2016ByRIVKA LAZOVSKY
Female combat soldiers in the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion train in urban warfare.

WIZO was Israel’s first social start-up, says organization's outgoing president

Tova Ben-Dov sat down with The Jerusalem Post to talk about the past, present and future of WIZO, which is celebrating 95 years.

JANUARY 17, 2016ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Tova Ben-Dov

Women of WIZO from 40 nations get ready for Tel Aviv mega-bash

WIZO members from 40 countries to gather in Tel Aviv for quadrennial event.

JANUARY 14, 2016ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
WIZO members from 40 countries to gather in Tel Aviv for quadrennial event

PM pledges ‘significant steps’ against domestic violence

Netanyahu’s comments mark International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women

NOVEMBER 26, 2015ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with women living at a WIZO and government sponsored shelter for victims of domestic violence, during a tour marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Walking the line:the Animix festival

Blumenberg was born in Lugano, Switzerland, and made aliya at the age of 13. Even so, he says he makes good use of some of the traits he imbibed in his birth country.

AUGUST 3, 2015ByBARRY DAVIS
Raffael Blumenberg’s ‘Woman, Man, Line.’ at the Animix festival.

WIZO and Wikimedia Israel launch competition to promote Israeli women online

Collaboration aims to add, recognize, 150 female Israeli figures to Wikipedia.

MARCH 24, 2015ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Prof. Rivka Lazovsky, chairwoman of WIZO World Executive.

Here and There: The elections merry-go-round... and its consequential fallout

There can be no doubt that the current electoral system we ‘enjoy’ in Israel will continue to provide governments that simply cannot govern.

DECEMBER 18, 2014ByBRENDA KATTEN
Elections in Israel

The Human Spirit: Being Malke Bina

You couldn’t help absorbing how much Rabbanit Bina loved this material. Torah study is always far more than the material on the page.

OCTOBER 2, 2014ByBARBARA SOFER
Malka Bina sits in the library of the institute she founded, the Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Torah Studies.

And the most sexist advertisement of 2013 is…

Sano Jet's campaign depicting 2 small girls competing over who has the perfect housewife mother, taking women's rights back 50 years, according to WIZO.

MARCH 5, 2014ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Still from Sano Jet commercial

Kibbutz Dafna worker bitten by viper

Weekly wrap-up of local news around the country.

JANUARY 30, 2014ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Boy looking at snake 521