Join us for this special evening

Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, Co-Executive Director, Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, is a gifted and passionate speaker who is coming to our community to speak about her work promoting women's rights, Arab citizens' rights, and Jewish-Arab relations in Israel. Join us to hear Amal take us through her personal journey as a change maker, her vision for her community, and how the challenges and opportunities she faced along the way shaped her identity as a leader.

Short Bio:

Amal Elsana Alh'jooj was born in 1972, the fifth of thirteen children. As an adolescent, Amal was beginning her journey to change the status quo for women and Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. She began her career as a community organizer at age 14, and at 17, established the first Arab Bedouin women's organization to improve the situation of Bedouin women. In 2000, she began working at NISPED whose organizational vision and approach to sustainable human development presented Amal with the opportunity to develop a new model to meet pressing challenges.

Today, Amal is one of the key shapers of public opinion regarding the status of the Arab minority and the status of women in Israel. She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Commission for Economic Development of the Arab Sector; a member of the Steering Committee of Shutafut-Sharaka; a member of the professional committee of the Employment Creation Division of the JDC.

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