{"id":8041,"date":"2018-08-15T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T07:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:50:54","slug":"nitzan-senior-a-woman-waging-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/nitzan-senior-a-woman-waging-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitzan Senior &#8211; a Woman Waging Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">My name is\u00a0<b>Nitzan Senior\u00a0<\/b>(my last name incorporates that of my deceased grandfather, Shneur, of blessed memory). I am 32 years old and currently live with my parents, my sister and my brothers in Zoran [north of Tel Aviv, near Netanya]. I am the eldest sister of Einav, 31; Lanir, 24; Ron, 23; and also Bambi, a mixed-breed Pinscher, and many cats (the last time I counted there were seven).<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img class=\" wp-image-8042 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/nizansenior-221x300-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"259\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I always liked to be involved in what was happening around me. In elementary school I was part of the decoration and social committees; in high school I joined the student council and served as its chair for two years. And I\u2019ve always liked to write. I used to read and write and read and write; today I mostly write. I seem to read less\u00a0 because my attention span has shortened; that doesn\u2019t stop me, however, from buying new books.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I joined\u00a0<b>Women Wage Peace\u00a0<\/b>when my brother Nir was fighting in Gaza during\u00a0<i>Tzuk Eitan<\/i>\/Operation Protective Edge\/the 2014 Gaza War. He came out of it unharmed unlike other fighters in his unit, some of whom were killed and some wounded. During that difficult summer I began to feel extremely anxious and suffered constantly from the fear that something bad would happen to me. Despite the mental difficulties involved, I took part in a number of dialogue groups with Palestinian women in an attempt to soften the pain little. I also participated because of my conviction that there is no such thing as\u00a0<i>kakha zeh,<\/i>\u00a0<i>that\u2019s just the way things are<\/i>\u00a0[a Hebrew expression for feeling resigned to life as it is] and that the security and political situation we\u2019re currently in cannot remain in its current form forever. I will not accept it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8045\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\" wp-image-8045\" src=\"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/nizansenior1-350x350-1-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"210\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The young politicians receiving the prize from Israel Minister of Justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around the same time, I founded the\u00a0<b>Young (Women) Politicians Project\u00a0<\/b>which encourages young women to enter the political arena on both the national and local level. I hope that the involvement of more women in making critical decisions about our lives will lead to progress in politics and that we will be able to achieve real peace. And no, it\u2019s not a question of whether one is politically Right or Left\u00a0 \u2013 a division that I disagree with, but I\u2019ll save that discussion for another post. Rather it\u2019s a question of pursuing peace. And who doesn\u2019t want peace? Do men want peace or do they believe in it as a religious ideal? What about women? What matters is the idea that\u00a0<i>yes, peace is possible!<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">We recently received a prize in the Knesset for the Young Politicians Project and I am very grateful to all the women who took part in its operation from the very first moment.\u00a0 Their advice, guidance, great connections and support are helping us to integrate young women into politics.\u00a0 Indeed, quite a few amazing members of WWP assisted me in designing the project, including Michal Barak, Shiri Levinas, Nurit Hajaj, Roni Felzen and many other wonderful women. They have all lent us their shoulders to lean on and made the Young (Women) Politicians Project what it is today \u2013 a leading venture with more than 100 graduates who know that the political field belongs to us, too. That this life is ours, too. And that it is\u00a0<i>our<\/i>\u00a0responsibility to bring about change; we do not have the luxury of sitting back and doing nothing.\u00a0In conclusion, I invite you to visit the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/youngpoliticaisrael\/?ref=bookmarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/youngpoliticaisrael\/?ref%3Dbookmarks&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534403356437000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGXk7FwLkuYiweLzXxERvoQH0Y30Q\">Facebook page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of Young (Women) Politicians. [in Hebrew]<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last but not least, last month I was one of the six WWP members who\u00a0took part in a training program in Belfast led by the Reverend Gary Mason, founder of the Rethinking the Conflict Institute.\u00a0Its purpose was to learn about\u00a0the long and violent conflict in <strong>Northern Ireland<\/strong> and the peace process that eventually brought it to an end with the signing of the <strong>Good Friday Agreement<\/strong> twenty years ago this year.\u00a0This coming autumn, our delegation will share with us in detail what they learned&#8230; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/women-wage-peace-ireland-delegation-nitzan-senior\/\">read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>translated from Hebrew by Donna Kurshbaum<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is\u00a0Nitzan Senior\u00a0(my last name incorporates that of my deceased grandfather, Shneur, of blessed memory). I am 32 years old and currently live with my parents, my sister and my brothers in Zoran [north of Tel Aviv, near Netanya]. I am the eldest sister of Einav, 31; Lanir, 24; Ron, 23; and also Bambi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nitzan Senior - a Woman Waging Peace - Women Wage Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/nitzan-senior-a-woman-waging-peace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nitzan Senior - a Woman Waging Peace - Women Wage Peace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My name is\u00a0Nitzan Senior\u00a0(my last name incorporates that of my deceased grandfather, Shneur, of blessed memory). 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