Hagit ofran biography for kids

          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....

          Born in Jerusalem and raised in a politically-minded, Orthodox family, Hagit avidly studied the history and identity of the Israeli and Jewish people.

        1. Born in Jerusalem and raised in a politically-minded, Orthodox family, Hagit avidly studied the history and identity of the Israeli and Jewish people.
        2. Born in in Jerusalem, Ofran left the Orthodoxy of her family but recently edited a volume of religious commentary by her late grandfather.
        3. 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.
        4. " Hagit Ofran, I would only point out, is a self-descrbied Zionist who seeks to preserve Israel's Jewish majority, and its democracy and at.
        5. Hagit Ofran documents settlement construction in the Palestinian territories and raises awareness of the issue in Israel in order to maintain the possibility.

          6. The Zionist still holding a candle for peace and equality

          Whenever the peace organisation Peace Now brought tens of thousands of Israelis out into the streets for peace in the late 1980s, teenager Hagit Ofran stood on the sidelines and watched, fascinated.

          She still felt too young to join in. But a few years later – it was 1995 and Ofran had just completed her military service – she watched the parliamentary debate on the signing of the Oslo II Accord on television.

          Two members of parliament from the Labour Party, the mainstay of the peace camp at the time, voted against the signing.

          21-year-old Ofran could not believe it. Without further ado, she became a member of the Labour Party in order to have a say in its primary elections, and shortly thereafter became active in the organisation Peace Now.

          Hagit Ofran is now the executive director of Peace Now's Settlement Watch programme – and probably knows more about Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories than any other Isr