The Recognition & Reconciliation initiative is supported by Expertise France and the European Union.This support enables the Mothers Against Violence movement to turn recognition into action: connecting women and communities, creating spaces for encounter, listening, and action, and building from the ground up a women-led civic foundation of responsibility, equality, and reconciliation toward a shared political future.
With Thanks to Our Partners and Supporting Organizations
Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center
TANDI – Movement of Democratic Women in Israel
Peace Partnership
Combatants for Peace
Breaking the Silence
New Israel Fund
Mothers Against Violence Israel
Ketty Bar – Founder and Director
Hamutal Gouri
Iris Rapoport
Rivka Munitz
Dafna Efron
Yonat Efron
Susan Feit-Stern
Special Thanks
To the panelists of The Circle with Hamutal:
Aida Touma-Suleiman, Anat Saragusti, Samah Salaime, and Sivan Tahel - for creating a women-led, political, and feminist space for critical dialogue, listening, and a public voice.
To Timna Peter and Avital Glazer, creators of the film The Return of Maha, screened at the Recognition & Reconciliation Conference in Acre – for a work that connects memory, identity, place, and recognition.
Special thanks to the dozens and hundreds of women who have accompanied the initiative throughout the past year. To everyone who mobilized, donated, traveled, came to the field, led, organized, shared, wrote, spoke, and invited more women to join. You transformed Recognition & Reconciliation from an idea into action, from a conversation into a movement, and from individual participants into a growing network of women as agents of civic and political change.
Above all, our deepest gratitude goes to the mothers, women, and the entire community of Umm al-Khair, who opened their homes, their stories, and their lives to us, and chose to build with us an ongoing relationship of trust, presence, and partnership.
Special thanks to Hnadi Hathaleen and Khalil Hathaleen – for their trust, partnership, and the journey we share.
Design, Creation & Storytelling
To designer Raz Tzur – for the new visual spirit, the momentum, and the website that gives Recognition & Reconciliation a digital home and allows its story to unfold as a living, present, and evolving virtual space.
To Julie Shlez and Tomer Slutzky – for the documentary currently in development and for the cinematic perspective that accompanies this journey, seeking to preserve the people, moments, and realities behind the process.
To Daniel Wanne – for the translation work that enables words, voices, and stories to cross linguistic boundaries and makes Recognition & Reconciliation a shared and accessible space.
Photography & Documentation
To Orna Naor, the photographer who has accompanied and documented the Mothers’ activities in the field throughout this journey, and to Tzipi Menashe - for the perspective, presence, and documentation that enable the stories, the women, and the realities on the ground to reach the public sphere.
And thank you to all the women, photographers, and individuals who documented this journey – with phones and cameras, in planned moments and in times of emergency. Some images reached us without names or any way to identify their creators. Our gratitude extends to them as well. This accumulated documentation forms part of the visual memory of Recognition & Reconciliation and helps us transform realities that often remain outside public view into a visible, present, and documented story.
