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November 29: Shulamit Aloni
Outspoken Israeli feminist and peace activist Shulamit Aloni was born on this date in Tel Aviv in 1929. A veteran of the 1948 War of Independence (she was taken captive in the Old City of Jerusalem by Jordanian forces), Aloni was a member of the Knesset from 1965 to 1969 and from 1974 to 1996. She has worked as a civil rights attorney, teacher, journalist, Cabinet member (including as Minister of Education), and organizational builder, and has been an especially strong secular humanist advocate, opposed to rabbinical power in Israel. Aloni received an Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel in 1998, and the Israel Prize in 2000.
“It’s hard for me to say a kind word about the state today. We are in great distress morally and socially, as well as in the realms of politics and law.” —Shulamit Aloni
Watch Amy Goodman’s 2002 interview with Shulamit Aloni on Democracy Now:
