Management
Nava Braverman
Chairwoman of Women and their Bodies
Member of the National Council for Women's Health. Formerly: Chief Midwife at Hadassah Ein Kerem, founder and head of a nursing team at the Center for the Treatment of Victims of Sexual Assault in Hadassah. Nava previously worked as a nurse, midwife, senior teacher at the Hadassah and Hebrew University School of Nursing, and as the Hadassah Women's Health Coordinator.
Education: The Henrietta Szold School of Nursing of Hadassah and the Hebrew University (BSN), a post-basic course in obstetrics (certified midwife), the School of Public Health of Hadassah and the Hebrew University (MPH).
Tal Tamir
Co-founder of the organization, editor-in-chief of the book "Women and their Bodies", and former director of the Knowledge and Action Center
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Tal was writer and editor of research and reports for the Equal Opportunities at Work Commission; director of the Israel Women's Network research center (published two books on the status of women in Israel); coordinator of the Lafer Center for Gender Studies; research assistant for the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women. She has a teaching certificate and a master's degree in education from the Kibbutz Seminar, and in political science from the Hebrew University. She lectures on topics related to the status of women, gender, health and social change, and teaches civics and gender at Lady Davis High School in Tel Aviv.
Ruthy Tendler
Board member
Ruty is the former pedagogical director of the Principals Training Program at The Open University of Israel. She was the principal of the Herzog 6-year secondary school campus in Holon and won the National Education Award in 2003. Ruty was a leader of the Schools Advocating Change project and a member of the founding team of The Israeli Center for School Leadership at Avney Rosha Institute. Ruty holds an M.A. in Education Administration, a Teaching Certificate and an Organizational Consulting Certificate.
Gally Covo
Board member
Gally is an occupational psychologist, with extensive experience in human resource management in large business organizations. She currently serves as director of the JDC adult employment program.
Mirit Sidi
Board member
Mirit holds a bachelor's degree in political science and sociology and a master's degree in social work. She participated in the fellowship program at Alma College – Hebrew Culture and is a graduate of the Dmut Institute East-West Integrative Psychotherapy program at Tel Aviv University. She has been practicing and studying Buddhism for many years. Mirit has 25 years of experience working with young adults, specifically marginalized young girls, in both formal and informal frameworks. She established and directed the Women's Courtyard organization for 15 years, primarily working with girls and young women. Mirit partnered in establishing the Forum for Young Women's NGOs and participated as a leading team member. In addition, the Women's Courtyard concept inspired various programs for working with young women. Today she is a counselor, a group facilitator, and a consultant for various bodies that specifically work with women, such as the Ministry of Social Affairs, National Insurance, Ashalim, and NGOs. In addition, she teaches training programs on social work poverty awareness in departments for social services across the country. She also treats women in her clinic.
Aroub Rinawi
Board member
Marketing and Advertising professional, strategic consultant, expert in creative
and strategic solutions. Founder and CEO of ex'cellent marcom agency.
Aroub founded ex'cellent marcom agency in 2006, after holding a position as
head of the Arab department in both McCann Erickson Tel Aviv and Ariely
MIGZARIM.
Aroub Graduated from the Technion Institute in Haifa with a B.SC. Degree in
Civil Engineering, after working as a civil engineer for a couple of years she
graduated from Leicester University in England with an MBA Degree –
marketing.
In her thesis project, she investigated the influence of the Arab culture on the
consumption of underwear among Arab women, and for the first time
presented the segmentation of the Arab market according to lifestyle rather
than demographic that was customary until then. The segmentation model
according to lifestyle was subsequently adopted in the Arab advertising
industry in Israel.
Today, she is leading digital advertising and marketing campaigns for major
international and local brands. The campaigns mainly include original
commercial productions with innovative and spoken creative. She also serves
as a consultant for advertising and marketing for the Arab community.
Dr. Ayala Branson
Board member
Ayala is a lecturer in strategic management at Reichman University; She promotes the field of "mid-life" within the association Women and Their Bodies. Previously, Ayala managed the Innovation Lab at the Technion Entrepreneurship Center and before that, she served as a process engineer at Tower Semiconductors. Throughout the years, Ayala has accompanied social entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs.
Her education includes a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering (Technion), an MBA focusing on strategy and entrepreneurship (Technion), and a doctorate in the field of strategy (Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion). She enjoys mountain biking and hiking.
Staff
Dana Weinberg
Founder and director of Women and their Bodies
Dana is an IVN Social Entrepreneur Fellow. She is active in promoting the health of women in Israel. She has a master’s degree in medical anthropology from the Hebrew University; her thesis titled “The gynecological exam: Body, culture and interpretation in the experiences of Israeli women”. Dana is a lecturer and a group facilitator in various topics regarding the status of women, gender, health, sexual health and social change. Dana was the director of the School for Political Leadership for Women at WIZO in Jerusalem and the coordinator of the Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies.
Dana is a Yoga teacher, teaching in Jerusalem.
Ronie Nof Maltz
Dr. Iris Barkan
Training coordinator, guidance and supervision of WTB group facilitators.
Iris has been part of WTB since its establishment, and loves being involved in the organization’s important work. She is active in the promotion and enrichment of women, specifically in areas of women’s health, while developing an agenda that encourages women to take full responsibility for their own health management. She works as a consultant, in coaching and in education, believing that people can change, grow, and love. Iris is an experienced group facilitator in a wide range of topics, including parenting, women, educators, and others. She lectures at David Yellin College, she is an organizational consultant specializing in managers and work teams, has a private clinic for personal, professional, and parenting coaching in Jerusalem. Iris has a PhD in Coaching Psychology, specializing in working with parents of adolescents.
I am a Doula and childbirth instructor and on my way to becoming a healthy sexuality educator. The attraction to working with women has accompanied me for many years, on a personal and feminine level, dealing with a chronic gynecological disease – Endometriosis – and in recent years, has developed into a professional and central occupation in my life as I dived further into the wonderful and fascinating world of women and the experiences they have gained in their lives. I believe in and support the full right of women to choose for themselves and make informed decisions about their bodies, using up-to-date, reliable and accessible professional knowledge. I also volunteer at an aid line for women who have experienced obstetric violence and happy to be a part of women and their bodies.
Ofri Weiner Yahav
New Media Coordinator in Hebrew for Women and their Bodies.
Entsar Khales
New Media Coordinator in Arabic for Women and their Bodies.
Student in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Sociology and Education with experience working with a variety of teams that promote the exploitation and advancement of women’s rights and the rights of Arab society. The topics of body image, women’s health and sexuality are very interesting to me and I am constantly reading and creating content in these fields and topics. I joined the team in an effort to raise the awareness of Arab women and girls across the country to female and gender issues and to provide them knowledge about various topics linked to body health.
Basma Ghalia
Director of the think tank of women’s health experts in Arab society at WTB.
Initiator and director of the “Mantra“ clinic, the integrative clinic for women‘s health in the life cycle, in Sakhnin. Initiator of a women‘s walking group “for personal safety” in the Galilee.
Certified physiotherapist in orthopedic and pelvic floor rehabilitation among women and children, formerly physiotherapist at Clalit Health Services, student counselor, teaching assistant at Assaf Harofeh School of Physiotherapy, member of the steering committee for women‘s health on behalf of WTB for the Advancement of Physiotherapy in Israel.
Profession: Physiotherapist since 2005, Tel Aviv University, certified in women’s health, vaginal and anorectal rehabilitation among women and children. Master‘s degree in public health – health promotion track (Haifa University), rehabilitative Pilates trainer, lecturer and conducts workshops for the general public to promote health in general and women‘s health in particular.
Ella Hart
Workshop facilitator and a volunteer team member of Women and their Bodies.
Ella has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and special education from Tel Aviv University, and a group facilitator diploma from the Institute for Group Facilitation in Jerusalem. She runs her own business teaching sports and dance classes (Zumba, yoga, aerobics and fitness), promotes healthy body image through movement and dance, and teaches and organizes workshops on the subject.
