Legal Issues Facing Women in Israel: A Conversation with the NIF Law Fellows

Join NIF-DC for a special event featuring the NIF Law Fellows, Reut Cohen and Muna Haddad

Now in its 30^th year, NIF’s Law Fellowship invests in young Israeli lawyers to study civil rights law in the US and practice in Israel. Its more than 50 alumni form the core of Israel's civil rights bar and have been at the forefront of nearly all major victories in the field. Muna and Reut will discuss legal issues facing women in Israel in a facilitated conversation.

Sunday, June 1st
3:00 - 4:30 pm

Light refreshments will be served.

At the private home of Prue Thorner (address will be emailed upon registration).

Reut Cohen is a feminist, human rights activist and lawyer from Haifa. She has written extensively on legal issues related to gender, law and politics and served as the deputy editor of Law & Government, University of Haifa's Faculty of Law Review Journal. As a student at University of Haifa, she co-founded a Jewish-Arab group to challenge discriminatory student union policies and started a feminist blog Reuma to provide feminist perspectives on pop culture. She took a leadership role in the 2011 Israeli social justice protests in Haifa as well as in the local LGBTQ community's struggle for recognition and funding from the municipal government.

Muna Haddad is a Palestinian-Israeli lawyer from Nazareth. She studied law and psychology at the University of Haifa (2008). During that time she worked as a research assistant to the Dean of Research and worked at WAC-MA'AN, a workers' advice center. Muna interned at the civil department of the Northern DA's Office and then worked as an attorney at a private law office. She obtained an LL.M degree in Commercial Law from Tel Aviv University (2012) and volunteered at Aswat - Palestinian Gay Women. After realizing that human rights law is her true passion, Muna volunteered at a human rights NGO in Ghana.

Questions? Contact Jessica Simon, DC Region Development Associate, at jessica@nif.org or 202-513-7870.

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