Yael Dayan, former MK and advocate for women's and LGBTQ+ rights, remembered for her leadership and trailblazing legislative efforts.
Oren Lotan is the projects manager for the Jerusalem Transportation Master Plan Team (JTMPT), working to improve transportation in Jerusalem.
Salehi's case has received worldwide attention as the Islamic regime in Iran continues to threaten activists with severe sentences.
"Long live the resistance. Long live freedom. Long live the indomitable brave women of Iran," said Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi.
American Jews are not bad at advocacy. We are bad at Jewish advocacy.
“Our key turning point was when Nate was a high-school junior, and I was a sophomore when we did experience some antisemitism.”
While the organizers are fasting with an emphasis on the female hostages, they said that the fast is universal and invited participants to choose to focus on any hostage.
Rational arguments can hold little sway in the face of this totalizing ideology. Many of those fervently demonstrating for Gaza have no understanding of what “from the river to the sea” means.
“She was the single most important voice fighting hunger in New York for 50 years and the first to focus on school food, which resulted in literally thousands of kids eating food meant for the trash.
Dalia Ziada condemned the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 but then faced a wave of threats and criticism at home and had to flee to the US.