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The study aims to lay out and conceptualize the feminist legal co-facilitation model that was developed during the program Women Legal Leaders & Legal Feminism Clinic in the University of Haifa. The program worked to promote the voices of Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli women from disadvantaged backgrounds in the legal and public spheres and create a space in which the women legal leaders would transfer their priorities for activism from the personal to the political realm in the form of advocacy. Thus, during the program, the participants encountered other activist women by volunteering in feminist organizations from the extensive feminist network in the city of Haifa and from the Itach-Ma’aki organization.
We thank the many women who were part of this endeavor, the young activists that it cultivated, the organizations, and the foundations that provided support in both resources and ideas. Our thanks to Fathi Marshood and Shatil Haifa, Robi Friedman and Ayelet Ilani, who supervised us and the teams, and to Lois Herman, a veteran feminist activist from the USA. Our special thanks to Adv. Ronit Haramati-Halperin, Noya Rimalt, and Sagit Mor, to the academic and administrative faculty at the Haifa University Faculty of Law, and to the women of Itach-Ma’aki—Women Lawyers for Social Justice.
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To learn more about the organization, see: http://www.iataskforce.org/entities/view/1064.
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Myrtenbaum, D., Falah, N. (2019). An Activist, Feminist Group Co-facilitation Model and Its Influence on Field. In: Markovich, D., Golan, D., Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N. (eds) Understanding Campus-Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13781-6_9
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