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Peace Now’s Hagit Ofran is One of Haaretz’s 66 Israeli Influential Women
04.5.14
As Israel marks 66 years of independence Ha’aretz daily compiled a list of “66 Israeli women you should know”. Those women are “breaking barriers, defying stereotypes and wielding influence to great effect in the corridors of power and behind the scenes. Each and every one of these outstanding achievers, we believe, is a woman worth watching.”
Here’s what they say about our Hagit Ofran:
She may know more about the scope of settlement construction than any person alive – more, even, than settlement movement heads, who have come to see her as a primary, if polite, nemesis. Since 2007, Hagit Ofran has headed Settlement Watch, the spearhead of Peace Now’s efforts to uncover illegal settlement growth and to petition courts to compel the government to combat it. Going about her field work tirelessly in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Ofran has repeatedl • 19.9.16 Hagit Ofran works at the “Settlement Watch” project at the Israeli peace movement of “Peace Now” since 2006. Widely-recognized as one of Israel’s foremost experts on a full range of issues related to West Bank settlements and settlement-related developments in East Jerusalem, Hagit’s work includes traveling daily throughout the West Bank, examining aerial photos and browsing official Israeli documents. The “Settlement Watch” project serves as a resource for Israeli politicians, diplomats, international media organizations, and first and foremost – for the Israeli public. She is one of “66 Israeli women you should know” of Haaretz daily: “women breaking barriers, defying stereotypes and wielding influence”. She formerly worked for The Geneva Initiative and was Yossi Beilin’s personal assistant when he was the Minister of Justice. She lives in Jerusalem and received her B.A. in Jewish History from Heb • Israeli activist Hagit Ofran (Hebrew: חגית עופרן; born 1975[1]) is an Israeli peace activist. Since 2007 she has directed Peace Now's Settlement Watch project, which monitors the Israeli settlement movement.[1] In 2014 Haaretz wrote that she "may know more about the scope of settlement construction than any person alive,"[1] an assessment echoed bygd Qantara.de in 2021.[2] Ofran grew up in Jerusalem, in a religiously observant family with eight siblings.[2]Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the Orthodox Jewish intellectual and critic of the occupation, was her grandfather.[2] She earned a bachelor's grad in Jewish History at Hebrew University.[3] As director of Settlement Watch, Ofran researches and writes about settlement construction, participates in court cases related to outpost settlements, and travels widely throughout the West Bank.[2&
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