{"id":2077,"date":"2009-11-03T05:22:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T12:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2009-11-04T01:46:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T08:46:35","slug":"israel-womens-network-celebrates-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"Israel Women’s Network Celebrates 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israel Women\u2019s Network celebrates 25 years of achievement with the gala performance of \u201cYentl\u201d<\/a> at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, tonight, November 4 at 19:00, in an evening hosted by Einat Erlich, with Minister of Education Gideon Sa\u2019ar in attendance.<\/p>\n

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From Alice Miller\u2019s petition to the High Court of Justice that paved the way for women to become pilots in the Israeli Air Force, to the recognition of childcare expenses for tax deductions, the Israel Women\u2019s Network has worked on behalf of women\u2019s rights for the past 25 years, with an impressive list of accomplishments along the way, including: fair representation of women on the board of directors of government owned companies, and a law against sexual harassment, in addition the network has helped hundreds of women re-enter the workforce and has established programs to support young girls at risk.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Yentl-484s\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Israel Women\u2019s Network has joined with the Cameri and Haifa Theatre\u2019s to present tomorrow\u2019s gala evening. Proceeds from this evening will assist the network in its continued efforts to advance women\u2019s causes in Israel. Among the donors for the event are: Bank HaPoalim, Isracart, Strauss, Jerusalem Foundation for Justice.<\/p>\n

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Nurit Tsur, General Manager of the Israel Women\u2019s Network, said, \u201cYentl is a reminder that we must continue our struggle so that women will not have to disguise themselves in order to have the same opportunities and achievements as men.\u201d HaPoalim Bank has supported the activities of the Israel Women\u2019s Network for many years. Hannah Pri-Ziv, Vice CEO of HaPoalim said, \u201cPromoting the education of girls and women is one of the most important components of their individual development, and a crucial tool for eliminating the existing salary gap between women and men, and as such is a great contribution to the Israeli economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Performance:<\/p>\n

Wedesday, November 4 at 19:00<\/p>\n

Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv<\/p>\n

Tickets: 03-6123990<\/p>\n

www.cameri.co.il<\/p>\n

\u00a0Image credit: Gerard Alon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Israel Women\u2019s Network celebrates 25 years of achievement with the gala performance of \u201cYentl\u201d at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, tonight, November 4 at 19:00, in an evening hosted by Einat Erlich, with Minister of Education Gideon Sa\u2019ar in attendance. \u00a0 From Alice Miller\u2019s petition to the High Court of Justice that paved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}