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The Israel Women’s Network (IWN)
The Israel Women’s Network (IWN) is Israel’s foremost women’s rights organization. For the past 40 years, we have been dedicated to advancing women's rights in Israel through feminist advocacy, lobbying, and legal efforts. Our initiatives focus on promoting gender equality by engaging with Knesset and government decision-makers, advocating for groundbreaking court rulings, raising awareness through media and social networks, and offering free legal advice to women in the workforce via a dedicated hotline. Our core issues are employment segregation, gender discrimination, equal opportunity, the wage gap, domestic violence, and sexual harassment in both professional and personal spheres, and more. During the war, we launched "The Alice Line," a new hotline designed to support women affected by the conflict in navigating their rights and obtaining government benefits. We are committed to assisting women from all sectors of society, including those experiencing multiple forms of discrimination.
Prof. Dafna Hacker - Incoming Chairwoman of the IWN
Prof. Hacker is a prominent Israeli feminist leader. A long-time activist, she has pursued a successful academic career while maintaining a life-long commitment to advance the status of women. She began her career as a lawyer at the Israel Women’s Network and later became a board member. In 2022, she was elected by 115 countries to serve, for four years, as an expert member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Prof. Hacker is a full professor at the Law Faculty and the Women and Gender Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. Her research has focused on the intersection of law, families and gender and has been published in three books and prestigious Israeli and international legal and socio-legal journals.
Tal Hochman - Executive Director of the IWN
Over the past decade, Tal has been active in raising awareness of and promoting women’s rights. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the IWN, Tal headed the Government Relations department at the IWN. Tal has a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Tel Aviv University. She previously worked as a social worker with youth involved in prostitution. She also has a master’s degree in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics. Her dissertation was on Israel’s recent legislation decriminalizing women in prostitution.
Meredith Jacobs is CEO of Jewish Women International (JWI), a 125-year-old nonprofit dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. Since assuming the role of CEO in 2020, Jacobs has shepherded the development of numerous JWI initiatives, including the National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence in the Jewish Community; the Collaborative of Jewish Domestic Violence Agencies; the Women’s Financial Empowerment Institute; ReStart: job readiness for survivors; the Jewish Communal Women’s Leadership Project; Men As Allies: Leading Equitable Workplaces; the Jewish Gun Violence Prevention Roundtable and the international expansion of Young Women’s Leadership Network. Under her leadership, JWI is spearheading state-wide advocacy efforts to achieve justice lending practices that would give survivors of financial abuse access to bank loans that would set them on the path to long-term economic security.