Jewish and Arab women are joining forces against femicides and sex-biased crimes in Israel
On a quiet road in the glaring March sun, they stood: a mélange of genders, ethnicities, and ages, a small cluster of protestors facing the police station in Lod, Israel. The building cast shadows on its officers. Its darkness occasionally danced on those at the front lines as well—heads of graying hair next to glittered eyelids and child-sized Adidas. A toddler rolled happily in the dust as he drew in red on a blank poster. His scribbles matched the signs his elders held.
Qafitan's death comes after a series of 26 femicides that occurred in Israel in 2018, the majority of them"honor killings," so-called because they are said to be both motivated and justified by the idea that women's actions reflect on the honor of the household. Their deaths are perceived as preferential to"deviance" from family tradition. This deviance could be anything as small as speaking with an unauthorized man to rumors of sleeping with him.
The demonstration started due to the combined efforts of Nir and three women in their twenties who were grieved by the recent events—Stav Arnon, Ruty Klein, and Dror Sadot. On the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, 29-year-old Arnon attended an annual march against domestic violence on Ben Gurion Street in Tel Aviv.
After the protests, Netanyahu's office reached out to IWN's executive director and former Knesset member Michal Gera Margaliot to negotiate. His government previously promised a budget of 250 million shekels over the course of five years for the treatment of violent men and the rehabilitation of abused women.
The protest accomplished a lot in this regard. Hotlines received more than double the previous number of calls from men reporting themselves as violent and in need of treatment. In addition, the number of women who checked themselves into women's shelters doubled. Margaliot would like to see this number grow, knowing that many women, like Qafitan, still refuse treatment due to inadequate safety measures, difficulties with childcare, etc.
Indeed, Nir says, violence can impact ultra-Orthodox, Bedouin, or other minority women with greater force, simply due to the close-knit nature of their communities. Still, domestic violence does not affect only one kind of woman. Hagit Yaari, the development director at IWN, aims to turn over the problematic view that only women in poverty or of a certain ethnicity experience abuse.
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