The five influential women in Bat Yam who were selected in the “Eshet Chayil” project last night received certificates of appreciation in the presence of Mayor Zvika Brut, in an exciting ceremony at the Hall of Culture that also included a performance by singer Keren Peles.
The influential women who received the certificate of appreciation last night are:
- Hava Nisimov An Israeli artist, writer and poet who survives the Holocaust and is active in the subject of Holocaust remembrance
- Anat YasharCommunity activity-
Social activist in the Amidar neighborhood of the city, founder and director of the Torah Center for Women “Tehilat Moshe”
- Liron Turgeman Moyal, Personal Victory – Volunteers to lecture on her personal victory.
The Bat-Yam native grew up, was educated and still lives in the city.
- Shoshana Cohen, Educator and volunteer in the community, born in Israel and for 48 years a resident of the city of Bat Yam, mother of two sons and grandmother of three granddaughters.
For 36 years, Shoshana has been involved in education, educating many generations of students in a variety of professions and different age groups.
- Adv. Kinneret Shamir concludes, Chairman of the Shekel Association, a community volunteer, lawyer, notary and certified mediator, owner of a law firm in Bat Yam that has been operating in the city for over four decades and assists volunteers for residents
The event was held at the City Hall of Culture and opened with greetings from Mayor Zvika Brut, Acting Eli Yariv, Anat Livnat, Advisor to the Mayor for Women, who presented the elected women with certificates of appreciation for their extensive work.
At the end of the distribution of the certificates, the singer Keren Peles also performed, for an empowering and exciting performance.
Mayor Brut greeted the elected women and said
You are a symbol of the powerful and powerful women we have here in Bat Yam, in the sources it is written,
Below is extensive information on each and every one of the five women who won the certificate of appreciation:
Hava Nisimov
craftsmanship
An Israeli writer and poet survives the Holocaust and is active in the subject of Holocaust remembrance.
A mother of three and grandmother of four grandchildren, she lived in Bat Yam for many years and initially wrote an article in the local newspaper and placed special emphasis on interviews with Bat Yam veterans, artists and volunteers in the city.
She currently lives in sheltered housing in Tel Aviv.
Hava was one of the first characters to bring the subject of childhood during the Holocaust to the agenda in her writing. As a witness, Hava lectures in schools, in IDF camps and accompanies delegations of youths and soldiers in Poland.
About two years ago, she won two awards in Poland on behalf of the Association for the Rights of the Child and on behalf of the Magazine for Literature.
Hava Nisimov was born in Warsaw, Poland, and when she was three when the war broke out, her mother hid her with a Polish peasant under a new identity – where she was often forced to hide from strangers behind the closet in the Polish family’s home.
At the end of the war, her aunt picked her up from her efforts and they lived in the city of Lodz, when her mother returned from where she hid under a false identity in Germany, Hava did not recognize her.
Shortly after the end of the war, Hava and her family immigrated to Israel.
In her 40s, she began studying at the university and managed community projects, including the Anti-Drug Authority in Bat Yam. Alongside work, she accompanied five world chassidim who lived in the city and took care of liaising with the municipal youth council, which accompanied and assisted with housekeeping and social gatherings.
Upon her retirement, she continued to volunteer for the rights of Holocaust survivors.
In 2007 she published a book – “A Girl From There” – in which she recounted her life. The book has been translated into English and published in the United States. In 2014 a play based on the book came up.
Other books written by Hava Nissimov: “Hunger of the Womb”, “There is no home for the house”, “My joy also dances gently”, “Kaleidoscope”, “Florian’s secret”, “Flamingo”.
Libraries have won awards in Israel and around the world.
Anat Yashar
Community activity
Social activist in the Amidar neighborhood of the city, founder and director of the Torah Center for Women “Tehilat Moshe”
Born in Bat Yam, mother of seven children and grandmother of fourteen granddaughters.
About twenty-two years ago, Anat established a religious social enterprise, “The Psalms of Anat,” which aims to fight and encourage children to read Psalms while playing and playing.
For years the activity took place in her home and with the cooperation of her family members, over time the activity expanded and the activity moved to a permanent residence in the Amidar neighborhood under the name “Tehilat Moshe”.
The expansion of the activity led to the opening of the “Midrashia for Women” – which holds learning classes both during the week and on Israeli holidays and festivals.
In addition, a “seminary for girls” was opened, which includes Torah studies, classes, lectures and empowering social activities.
Anat is the leading spirit, initiating and raising donations for activities, trips, lectures and holiday parties. The center offers workshops and courses for professional training for women, food and clothing during the holidays.
The activity of “Tehilat Moshe” attracts women from all over the city as well as women who do not belong to the religious sector.
Anat’s activities are characterized by closeness of hearts, collaborations with the “Women’s Council”, the “Hadassah Women” and more.
Anat is a listening ear to the residents of the neighborhood and often provides individual help to the needs of the women and their families.
Liron Turgeman Moyal
Personal victory
Volunteer lecturer on her personal victory.
The Bat-Yam native grew up, was educated and still lives in the city.
Courageously, Liron decides to reveal her name and tell her personal story in order to raise awareness and help young women:
In 2015, during her military service as an Air Force soldier on the premises, she was gang-raped at the base by soldiers who served with her. Liron filed a complaint with the military police against the soldiers, following which the military prosecutor’s office decided to prosecute them.
With great courage she continued to serve on the same basis when everyone around her knew her complaint.
The military court found the defendants guilty and sentenced them to prison. The defendants appealed the sentence which led to a legal delay of many months and Liron is repeatedly called to court.
Throughout that period, Liron’s family accompanied her and supported her in coping with the severe trauma in the form of no harsh statements from the environment of the defendants and disrespectful interrogations during the hearings.
The court finally finds them guilty and they are sent to jail.
Liron was recognized by the IDF as a trauma victim during her military service.
For several years she has been accompanying her partner Liron, Roi, in the process of rehabilitation and information, and together they have started a family and are parents to a baby.
Liron currently works as a kindergarten assistant and puts the issue of sexual harassment on the public agenda when she lectures voluntarily on the issue of sexual harassment at Air Force bases and assists young women, and is also expected to deliver lectures in schools in the city.
Shoshana Cohen
Educator and volunteer in the community
Born in Israel and for 48 years a resident of the city of Bat Yam, mother of two sons and grandmother of three granddaughters.
For 36 years, Shoshana has been involved in education, educating many generations of students in a variety of professions and different age groups.
She passed on her love of the Hebrew language to her students – some immigrants and some natives of the country in creative ways.
About twenty years ago she retired and has since taken an active and significant part in community volunteering in a variety of fields.
Since 2003, she has been teaching on a regular weekly basis, new immigrants of the third age-Hebrew and current affairs at the “House of Engineers” in the city.
Shoshana is one of the founders of the Women’s Council in Bat Yam and takes an active and significant part in its activities. The council operates in a variety of areas such as training, enrichment and empowerment for city women and the community.
For the past twenty years, Shoshana has been a member of the committee of the “Lovers” association, from the specialty house that operated in the city to the distribution of food baskets in the association’s offices.
The senior citizens of the city of Shoshana also help by visiting the senior citizens of the city through volunteering within the framework of the National Insurance Institute and assisting them in filling out forms and exercising their rights.
Shoshana accompanies individual families with guidance in front of the authorities and in connection with non-profit organizations and support bodies.
Her home serves as a center for collecting clothing and distribution to needy families in the city of Bat Yam.
For the past two years, Shoshana has joined the leading team at the WIZO Bat Yam branch and coordinates the field of reducing gaps in mathematics for children, along with volunteering to run the “clothing” in the city.
In every application, an event of associations operating in the city, she volunteers to take part, despite her extensive volunteer work for the community Shoshana hides her contribution and works.
Adv. Kinneret Shamir concludes
Chairman of the SHKL Association, a volunteer in the community
Lawyer, notary and certified mediator, owner of a law firm in Bat Yam that has been operating in the city for over four decades and assists volunteers for residents.
Kinneret was born in Bat Yam and lives there, a graduate of the “Tachkemoni” elementary school in the city – where all her children studied, married to Yaron and a mother of four.
The daughter of the late Tzipora Tavdala and Chaim David Mesika, who served as mayor of Bat Yam and a member of the city council until the day of his death.
Kinneret serves as the chairman of the SHKL Bat-Yam Association – the association for planning and developing community services in the city for the rehabilitation and integration of people with special needs in the community.
For many years, as part of her work as a lawyer, Kinneret has been careful to handle a number of cases voluntarily and free of charge each year, out of a desire to help people in distress in addition to providing legal assistance to the association and women’s organizations in Bat Yam.
Adv. Kinneret volunteers as a public representative on various committees of the Authority, and interviews candidates in the framework of manpower tenders in the Bat-Yam Municipality.
Kinneret is a local patriot whose extensive and long-standing volunteer activity helps many in the city.
They are guilty and sent to prison.
Liron was recognized by the IDF as a trauma victim during her military service.
For several years she has been accompanying her partner Liron, Roi, in the process of rehabilitation and information, and together they have started a family and are parents to a baby.
Liron currently works as a kindergarten assistant and puts the issue of sexual harassment on the public agenda when she lectures voluntarily on the issue of sexual harassment at Air Force bases and assists young women, and is also expected to deliver lectures in schools in the city.