WIZO

Alternative Civil Diplomacy: Why the Jewish people owe WIZO more than they know

At the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, World WIZO President Anat Vidor traced 106 years of women’s diplomacy and its often overlooked contribution to the Jewish people.

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

Beyond Sinai: The Clause That Turned "the Enemy" Into a Name

 (L-R): Joseph Gitler, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, and Anat Vidor

No. 44: Anat Vidor, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, and Joseph Gitler

Market goers shop at the HER Tel Aviv International Summer Festival in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2026.

Women immigrant-owned businesses featured at massive market at HER Tel Aviv festival


WIZO’s annual gender wage gap report shows fair salary gender equality in workforce

WIZO’s 2023 wage gap report shows balanced pay and gender equality, reflecting their commitment to promoting women's rights in Israel, with 84% female workforce.

WIZO in Strasbourg, 2009

Feminist, Zionist organization unveils programs to build Israeli resilience

The programs target self-awareness, the ability for self-defense, increasing positive self-image and interpersonal skills which, when combined, are supposed to result in increased resilience.

 Youth activities done in WIZO youth villages.

War times impact survivors of domestic abuse emotionally and financially - study

The research showed that the personal trauma, compounded with the collective trauma of the war, created a situation of overload and an accumulation of stressors and difficulties.

A protester holding an "Abuse isn't Love" sign at a protest against violence against women in Tel Aviv

Grapevine, January 19 2024, Talking Turkey with a vengeance

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Dr. Nina Nordstrom, ambassador of Finland with MDA Director-General Eli Bin.

WIZO Battered Women’s Shelter celebrates 40th anniversary

WIZO and government officials, formerly sheltered women and children speak. 200,000 women and 500,000 child domestic violence victims annually.

 Workers in the daycare educational system   protest in Tel Aviv, demanding better working conditions. October 3, 2021

Young Israeli chess champions crowned amid rocket fire

The champions will get the chance to represent Israel at the World Championship and European Championship.

 Six of the champions from the chess championship for young Israelis.

Grapevine January 18, 2023: Saturday night live

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 DANEL JAFFE breaks a glass at his wedding as his bride, Roni, his mother, Tamar (in blue), the bride’s mother, Yael Levin, and the groom’s father, Zalli Jaffe, look on.

Grapevine September 16, 2022: A cherry blossom swan song

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MICHAL HERZOG chats with a lone soldier.

Celebrity memorabilia sale's proceeds donated to women's shelters

In a joint initiative by WIZO, eBay and Gett Delivery, celebrities are auctioning off personal memorabilia in order to raise funds for women's shelters.

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli

By 2121, WIZO hopes gender disparity is no longer an issue

“If we do our job correctly, [by 2121], it should not be an issue anymore - not race, not religion, not gender,” said World WIZO CEO Anita Friedman.

 Anita Friedman, CEO, World WIZO