In Israel, Kamal, a young woman from the Druze community, is interviewed alongside her husband. She explains that it was difficult for her to get her family’s permission to attend high school. Today the situation has eased, women are working but studying is still complicated because of tradition.
En Israël, une jeune femme juive hassidique, aux côtés de son mari et dont les cheveux sont dissimulés sous une perruque, explique la place de la femme dans la religion juive orthodoxe et parle de sa vie de couple, régie par les préceptes de la Torah.
In Israel Ruth Lys explains how and why she founded the "The Bridge" peace movement in 1973, after losing her son in the Six Day War in 1967. This organization brings together Arab and Jewish women whose goal is to act against wars all over the world.
In Israel, a young woman is doing her military preparation while she has just finished her studies. Military service, mandatory for all, is two years for girls and three years for boys. She explains that boys have missions that girls cannot fulfill.
In Israel, an official of the WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization) talks about the history and missions of this structure. It is an international organization of volunteer Zionist women, which is a movement without political affiliation and divided into fifty federations worldwide. Founded in London in 1918, the WIZO was originally intended to help young refugee women who had emigrated to Israel alone in the aftermath of World War I. In 1980, it had 660 institutions and services in children’s homes, schools, youth clubs, shelters for women and girls and community centres throughout the country.