WIZO

Grapevine, May 8, 2026: A special Shabbat treat

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

WORLD WIZO president Anat Vidor (3rd from left) with members of the Buenos Aires City Legislature.
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

World WIZO President Anat Vidor

World WIZO president at Jerusalem Post summit

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

Meet Anat Vidor’s vision for World WIZO


WIZO launches graduate association

A network of alumni from WIZO’s schools and youth villages will serve as a new volunteer body working for the improvement of Israeli society.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Brig.-Gen. (res.) David Suissa, former chief artillery officer and chairman of the WIZO Graduate Association; Eden Harel, MC; MK Shelly Yacimovich; Danny Atar, KKL-JNF chairman; Prof. Rivka Lazovsky, World WIZO chairperson; Oshra Yosef Friedman, chairwoman of the Authority for the Adv

The people’s chair

Presiding over World WIZO, a network of 800 projects serving hundreds of thousands of children, youth and women across Israel, chairperson Rivka Lazovsky is in the business of changing lives

RIVKA LAZOVSKY visits a WIZO day-care center on the first day of school

Women’s International Zionist Organization UK turns 100

A part of the celebrations, current WIZO UK vice chairwoman Ronit Ribak-Madari will be appointed chairwoman of the organization, the first Israeli native to hold the title.

WIZO's 100th Birthday event in London

Jews of Turkey fear growing antisemitism

The crisis between Israel and Turkey is not only affecting Israeli tourists seeking inexpensive all-inclusive vacations, but also a Jewish community living in a Muslim majority state.

ANTI-ISRAEL protesters hold placards and a Palestinian flag during a demonstration to mark the annual al-Quds Day in Istanbul in July 2016. The placards read, ‘Free Jerusalem, a World without Israel’ (left) and ‘Down with Israel.’

International Women's Day: Women and the local question

If 50 women candidates for leadership of local councils still sounds like “wow,” it is only because we have become accustomed to a distorted reality.

Panel of female politicians at WIZO event on International Women's Day event in Jaffa

Family Day: A salute to wonder women

No offense to Gal Gadot, but these wonder women come in all ages, sizes, and from all backgrounds.

Gal Gadot stars as the fierce Amazon warrior princess out to save the world in ‘Wonder Woman'

WIZO SA, Israeli NGO donate wheelchairs to needy children in S. Africa

Each wheelchair is adorned with a sticker that reads "To the children of South Africa with love from Israel."

Members of WIZO South Africa, Israeli NGO Wheelchairs of Hope and the Israeli Embassy pose with nurses and disabled children at Maitland Cottage Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital in Cape Town

Grapevine: Remembering Raya

Jewish outreach in some parts of the United States, especially California, includes the Hispanic community.

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman stands at the Western Wall after lighting the menorah there for the second night of Hanukkah, 2018

WIZO: Seventeen deaths to domestic violence in 2017

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.

My Grandmother's Fur Coat, My Great Aunts and My Sisterhood Seeking

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