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WePower’s Activities:

Raising Awareness: Locating, Training
and Networking:
WePower holds conferences
to increase awareness to the WePower concluded that
gender gap across the country, women feel they need the
and is planning to have “Equal know-how tools prior to
City” conferences at Local entering the political arena.
Authorities in the future. Therefore, WePower conducts
WePower released promotion training for potential women
films targeted to increase leaders throughout the country.
awareness about gender
inequality, and appealed to the Legislation:
High Court in connection with
the Ultra- Orthodox policy, WePower promotes‭ l‬ egislation,‭
which prevents the inclusion of s‬ ubmits opinions in legislative
women candidates in their lists. processes‭, ‬attends Parliament
In 2018, WePower headed an hearings regularly and‭ ‬monitors‫‮‬
Israeli coalition of over 25 NGOs g‬ overnmental‭ ‬decisions and
(“Local 2018”), with the goal of public commissions‭, ‬which
raising awareness to the need to seek to reduce the gender gap
increase women representation around decision-making tables.
in the local government
towards the Israeli municipal
elections, held October, 2018.
On January, 2019, WePower
was chosen again, to head a
National Coalition (“National
2019”) to increase awareness
to, encourage and help women
candidates for the national
elections of April, 2019.

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