Written by Ruby Ong

Fighting for the Right to Affordable Housing Gil Gan-Mor was one of the leading members of the Coalition for Affordable Housing who presented a long letter to the Trajtenberg Committee which set out the coalition's demands for solving Israel's housing problem. The Trajtenberg committee was set up by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in response to the mass protests and is tasked with resolving Israel’s pressing socio-economic issues. Read more   Public Marriage Protests the Orthodox Rabbinical Monopoly Pavel Kogan married Ina Ziskind in Tel Aviv's Gan Hashmal last week on Tu B'Av, the traditional Jewish equivalent of Valentine's Day. Organized by NIF grantees Havaya – Israel Wedding, and Fishka Club, a social club for Russian-speaking new immigrants, the pluralist Jewish wedding ceremony protested the Orthodox monopoly on legal marriage, which denies more than 300,000 Israelis who are not halachically Jewish the right to marry within the country. Read more   SHATIL Hearing Furthers Social Protest "An important goal has been achieved: the mobilization of a critical mass of Israelis in a campaign for social justice, a critical mass which will engage in future struggles.… The seeds have been planted, and a new reality created." Speaking at a public hearing organized by SHATIL and Tel Aviv University’s School of Government and Policy, Professor Yossi Yona addressed the importance of the current social protests in Israel. Yona co-chairs the Alternative Experts Committees, comprising task-forces of academics and professionals recruited by grassroots activists to devise more equitable socioeconomic policies. Read more   Share