Autor/-in: Gila Svirsky

Gila Svirsky has headed some of the foremost peace and human rights organisations in Israel, including the New Israel Fund and B'Tselem: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. She co-founded the Coalition of Women for Peace and stood on the Jerusalem vigil of Women in Black for 24 years. Svirsky's political writings have been widely published. In 2002, she was awarded the Hermann Kesten Prize by PEN Germany, jointly with the Palestinian writer Sumaya Farhat Nasser, for their ongoing literary efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. For more information, see www. gilasvirsky. com.