68 Friday, September 17, 1982

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Naamat Focuses Attention on the Status of Israeli Women

By ROCHELLE
SAIDEL-WOLK

(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)

TEL AVIV — The status
of Israeli women is now cen-
tral to the programs and
platforms of Naamat, the
movement of working
women and volunteers affil-

iated with the Labor move-
ment in Israel, according to
Esther Zackler, official
representative in Israel for
American Pioneer Women /
Naamat.
A past national president
of Pioneer Women /
Naamat, Naamat's sister

organization in America
and 11 other countries, Mrs.
Zackler is a former Chicago
labor attorney who has
lived in Israel for eight
years.
To highlight their new
emphasis on the status of
women, Naamat will celeb-

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rate November 1982 as
"Status of Women Month in
Israel." The organization
has a membership of
750,000, or one out of every
two Israeli women.
Planned activities in-
clude surveys to raise
consciousness about-the
absence or extremely
small proportion of Is-
raeli women in positions
such as mayors, city
council members, and
Histadrut council mem-
bers. In addition, Naamat
will conduct public
forums and mock trials to
increase awareness of
the problems that women
in Israel face today.
Naamat's newest project
relating to the status of
women seeks to secure
rights for a group of unwed
mothers. Masha Lubelsky,
secretary general of
Naamat, explained that the
project was launched after
some 300 to 400 unwed
mothers approached the or-
ganziation for help. "These
are women who wanted to
have children without hus-
bands," she said. "They now
want to be treated legally as
families, • and are seeking
tax rights and other bene-
fits."
Expounding on the proj-
ect, Tamar Shashar, who
heads Naamat's Depart-
ment for the Status of
Women, said that the
mothers involved are usu-
ally unwed by choice, but
some had been falsely prom-
ised marriage or had been
unable to have safe abor-
tions. They are now organiz-
ing into groups in Haifa and
Tel Aviv, and have asked for
Naamat's aid with four is-
sues: adjustments in pay-
ments for day care nurse-
ries; extra income tax
exemptions; legal advice;
and special arrangements
for housing subsidies.
Naamat has agreed to as-
sist with the first three
problems, and a decision on
the fourth is pending, ac-
cording to Mrs. Shashar.
The question of "pro-
tective legislation" for
working women is an-
other issue that Naamat
is discussing with the
Knesset. Naamat's posi-
tion is that, with the ex-
ception of pregnancy and
the first few months of
motherhood, there
should be no difference
between working men
and women.
The war in Lebanon
dramatizes another aspect
of Naamat's efforts to im-
prove the status of Israeli
women. Since the Six-Day.
War in 1967, Naamat has
been providing free legal
aid to bereaved families of
war casualties. The new
war has brought women to
Naamat with urgent legal
problems, some of which
could not even be delayed

until the end of the shiva
(mourning) period.
For example, one war
widow was immediately
harrassed by her husband's
creditors, although, by law,
debts of war casualties are

postponed for 90 days. An-
other women needed to have
a guardian appointed, be-
cause the son who had (
cared for her was killed in
action and she was incapa-
ble of taking care of herself.'

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