When the Knesset begins its winter session on Monday, 120 women from the Women Wage Peace organization will be right outside holding a peace vigil. They plan to stand there every week, each one holding a sign with the name of a single Knesset member. They’ll also hold pictures of former prime ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin, bearing the slogan “With you all the way to the Nobel Peace Prize.”
The goal, said one of the group’s leaders, Yael Admi, is to get Israel’s 120 MKs thinking about peace.
Last week, Women Wage Peace completed a two-week peace march from Rosh Hanikra to the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, culminating in a mass rally that attracted thousands of people. Anyone who saw “the river of Israeli and Palestinian women marching and singing ‘Yes to peace, no to war’ together knows history was being made here,” said Admi, adding, “There’s a dispute over whether it was comparable to the Exodus from Egypt or the revelation at Mount Sinai.”
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