Join I Believe Israeli Women ahead of the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN for the first of a two-part series of webinars. In this first discussion, we will hear from Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas of The Dinah Project on the facts and evidence surrounding the gender-based war crimes committed on October 7, addressing both the atrocities themselves and the widespread disinformation aimed at erasing and distorting the truth.
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Zoom link will be emailed to you following registration. This webinar will be recorded and shared with all registrants.
Featured Speakers:
Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas
Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas is the former chief military prosecutor of the IDF; she has held numerous senior positions and prosecuted several complex and high-profile legal cases during her twenty-four years of service in the Israel Defense Forces. A graduate of the IDF National Defense College, she is an expert on Military and Operational law, Criminal and Administrative law, and white collar crime. She holds an M.A in Political science, an LLM (cum laude) and an LLB. She has spearheaded efforts to affirm the rights of victims of crime in the IDF and in Israeli society in general and promoted vital legislative amendments. Her groundbreaking work has led to significant legal precedents in the Israeli Supreme Court.
Meredith Jacobs
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.
I Believe Israeli Women is a global movement standing in solidarity with Israeli women and fighting the denial of and disinformation about the sexual violence of October 7. Join the movement here.
The Dinah Project is composed of legal and feminist experts determined that the world will never forget the heinous sexual violence and gender atrocities perpetrated on October 7th, 2023, and the ongoing abuse of the hostages. We are dedicated to bringing justice to those victims and to all future victims of conflict related sexual violence.