Sarah Azaryahu. Hitachdut Nashim Ivriyot LeShivuy Zechuyot Be’Eretz Yisrael [“The Union of Hebrew Women for Equal Rights in the Land of Israel.”]

The Union of Hebrew Women for Equal Rights in Eretz Israel was established in 1919, initially in response to the opposition of elements of the religious sector, including both the Ultra-Orthodox and the Mizrachi movement. This definitive history discusses the great variety of challenges faced by the Union’s formative years. Filled with faith in the Zionist ideal, which sought to build an egalitarian society in which Jewish women and men would live new lives, its members had every reason to believe that they would obtain equal rights and obligations in the new Zionist Yishuv in Palestine. The Union continued to work for full and equal political, legal and economic rights for women until the establishment of the State in 1948, when it merged with the WIZO organization.