WIZO, International Organization of Zionist Women Volunteers

WIZO, International Organization of Zionist Women Volunteers

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.

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File : Women in Israel

Publication date : 19 October 1981