Women from all over the country are expected to take part in a march in light of the plethora of Israeli murders • Anat Nir, protest organizer: "Violence Against Women - State Strikes"

• "Murder is the extreme point of street, work or home harassment"

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  Oren Ben Hakun - Archive

Following a string of women homicides, a protest march will be held at Charles Clore Park in Tel Aviv tonight (Monday). The event is expected to feature women from all over the country, many of whom will come through shuttles specially organized by many local authorities.

The main rally that opens at 7pm in the park will be attended by Shira Vishniak, whose sister Maya was murdered two weeks ago, Lily Ben-Ami, the sister of the late Michal Sela who was murdered last October, and Nir Elimelech, the brother of the late Anat Elimelech, who was murdered By her partner in 1997. On the stage of the rally will be the singer Eden Elena and Keren Peles.

Many women's organizations will take part in the rally, including Na'amat, the Women's Lobby, the Emergency Feminist Headquarters, the Salah Container Forum and the Association of Victims and Sexual Assault Relief Centers.

Inviting an event circulated on Facebook, organizers of the protest wrote: "Since they decided to budget the domestic violence prevention program for NIS 250 million, the plan that was further approved in 2017 - the budgets are stuck. In December 2018, the first women's strike against murder and violence against women in Israel followed. The government convened the ministerial committee and approved the transfer of NIS 50 million and an additional NIS 20 million budget to the domestic violence prevention program. A few weeks later, the Knesset was disbanded, and the budget was only partially passed and has since been stuck.

"We demand and demand the implementation and transfer of the budget to the National Domestic Violence Prevention Program. Require and require a government office addressing the issue. Demand and demand to put an end to violence.

"Murder is the culmination of street, work or home harassment - it's the tip of the glacier of pay gaps, of offensive comments, of hastiness, of paving women for low-paying professions, of prostitution women, of the fact that there is no gender education in schools. Gender violence and discrimination that we all feel every day and every space. "

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Anat Nir, one of the leaders of the women's protest: "We are united, women and men from all over the country, to demand an end to violence against women. This is a phenomenon that has become a state blow and our public pressure has already affected decision makers, so we were told that the first 20 million this week, with the assistance of Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli But we need all 250 million dedicated to the National Domestic Violence Program and the addition of torture to violent men.60 percent of men undergoing treatment leave this cycle of violence and success must pass into the hands of the state, which will advance policies to treat violent men, removing them from homes to non-treatment centers and facilities Could harm women. The feminist headquarters has emergency plans to eliminate the phenomenon. "

A sharp surge in complaints of domestic violence

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labor, Welfare and Social Services has updated a 122 percent increase in the number of domestic violence complaints received at hotline 118 during the current month. According to the firm's announcement, in April there were 849 inquiries, while in May their numbers jumped to 1,885. The ministry also added that "this is a trend that has been in progress since March."

The release details the May data, stating that "1,005 of the complaints were about inter-partner violence, 360 were violence against another family member, 273 were child violence, 19 were male violence, 29 were civilian violence Veterans, 31 were on suspicion of sexual harassment, 50 were for helpless neglect, and 11 were from violent men who sought assistance, with 107 inquiries from people reporting incidents involving neighbors or acquaintances.

"Labor and welfare officials believe that the reason for the increase in complaints is the recent murders of Mastual Alaze, Tatiana Chaikin, and Maya Vishniak to remember the boyfriends murdered by their spouses and the growing domestic violence discourse."

Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Itzik Shmuli addressed the worrying figures: "During the Corona crisis, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of calls for assistance against domestic violence. The surge indicates the magnitude of the challenge we face, as well as how critical and life-saving the welfare services are. Last week we achieved NIS 20 million budget An emergency in favor of the domestic violence war but in order to win it we will have to allocate additional budgets.