WIZO

WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot

For the students, many of whom remain closely connected with friends and family in their countries of origin, the issue is not abstract.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Students participate in the hackathon at WIZO Nachlat Yehuda.
WIZO Sweden President Susanne Sznajderman-Rytz.

WIZO Sweden president to receive royal medal for advancing Yiddish recognition

The recognition is widely viewed as a milestone for Sweden’s Jewish community, particularly at a time when concerns about antisemitism are growing across Europe.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Anat Vidor, World WIZO President.

WIZO’s Anat Vidor at 'Post' conference: 'Be the Zionist in your community'

Vidor told the 2026 Jerusalem Post New York Conference that Zionism is not a slogan or an abstract ideal, but a lived responsibility

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COOPERATION WITH WORLD WIZO
World WIZO President Anat Vidor. A biography that reads like the story of Zionism.

The civilian army: Anat Vidor and the quiet power of WIZO

“Give power to civil society. Because otherwise we will teeter on the edge of totalitarianism. Not instead of the government. Alongside it.”

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN, IN COLLABORATION WITH WIZO

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."

FEBRUARY 9, 2018ByILANIT CHERNICK
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.

JANUARY 18, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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

NOVEMBER 21, 2017BySARAH LEVI
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

NOVEMBER 18, 2017ByYVETTE NAHMIA-MESSINAS
The Jerusalem Post

TV network president 'stepping aside' over sexual assault allegations

Israeli network executive Alex Gilady denies accusations of rape and harassment.

NOVEMBER 8, 2017ByAMY SPIRO
Neri Livneh

Court: Okay for WIZO Settlement Division to build on behalf of state

Two NGOs protested a law that allows WIZO to skirt around pre-existing legislation.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
HOUSES IN the Jewish community of Efrat

Saying it with flowers

NGO’s Tu Be’av campaign urges gov’t to combat domestic violence

AUGUST 7, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
MK Isaac Herzog at WIZO Tu Be’Av campaign, August 7, 2017.

Raya Jaglom, ex-WIZO president for 26 years, dies at 98

The Romanian-born fundraiser championed kindness.

AUGUST 4, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Former WIZO president Raya Janglom

WIZO bestows its ‘Mark of Shame’ award to Maelys for most sexist commercial of 2016

The Mark of Shame campaign’s aim is to lead to a change in the presentation of the female body in advertising and to raise awareness of the social damage advertisements can cause.

MARCH 7, 2017ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Maelys facial cream commercial

WIZO promotes women and children's right in the United Nations

"The WIZO UN delegation serves their role as Israel's ambassadors," World WIZO chairwoman Prof. Rivka Lazovsky says.

JANUARY 26, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
WIZO representatives in the U.N. with Prof. Rivka Lazovsky. Left to right: Dr. Hava Bugajer, president of WIZO Austria, Mirelle Manocherian, vice president of WIZO U.S., Prof. Rivka Lazovsky, chairwoman of world WIZO, and Anne Argi, honorary member of WIZO Switzerland.