ABOUT · TEAM
The people holding this together.
Managers, facilitators and field activists, alongside a board and a broad alumnae community. Almost all of them do this on top of a job, a home, and the community they live in.
WHO WE ARE
The team
Esty Shushan
Founder and CEO, association member and steering-group member
A media professional, screenwriter and filmmaker, a Mizrahi-Haredi woman and mother of four. Founder of the "No Voice, No Vote" protest movement and of Nivcharot.
Hila Yalon
Board member
Works with the Israeli team of the Jewish Federation of San Francisco. Over twenty years of fieldwork and management in immigration and absorption, education and employment. A community-theatre director and public-policy graduate.
Hila Hasan Lefkowitz
Former projects and government-relations manager, association member and steering-group member
Today chair of the religious council in Kfar Yona. Coaches women to voice their inner voice, a social activist present in Knesset committees concerning Haredi women.
Tirtza Bloch Esterzon
Community manager and manager of the "Achotenu At" groups, association member and steering-group member
Mother of five, a content writer, translator and digital marketer. A community activist on health, welfare and Haredi women, promoting initiatives for single-parent families and women in the workforce.
Efrat Shukrun
Program facilitator, association member and steering-group member
A media professional and panelist, a Haredi feminist and social activist on ethnic discrimination, core-curriculum studies and Haredi women's representation in decision-making.
Sara Yanetz
Social media manager 2024–25; researcher and producer for "Haredit Meduberet" 2025–6
Responsible for Nivcharot's presence on social media, and for the podcast's production and research.
Adv. Yoav Lalum
Board member
A lawyer, founder of the "Noar KaHalacha" association working against ethnic discrimination and lack of transparency in admissions to Haredi educational institutions.
Adv. Reuven Bitton
Legal advisor
Racheli Ibenboim
Co-founded "Meoravot" with Esty Shushan; activist in the "No Voice, No Vote" campaign, 2015
Tali Farkash
Activist in the "No Voice, No Vote" campaign, 2015
A Haredi journalist, writes an opinion column in the Judaism section of Ynet.
Michal Chernovitzky
Activist in the "No Voice, No Vote" campaign, 2015
Miri Rosen
Activist and CEO of "Meoravot", 2015
Esty Reader Indursky
Co-CEO, 2016–2018
Partner in the legal and media efforts of her years leading the organization. A researcher and author, she wrote "And They Are Not Seen," the first book to articulate the concept of Haredi feminism.
Racheli Rushgold Gottlieb
Government-relations manager, 2018
Mira Zohar
"HaNivcheret" facilitator, 2018, in partnership with WIZO and the U.S. Embassy
Esther Kramer
HaNivcheret cohort 1 alumna; lecturer on government relations and Knesset committee work
Sheli Rappaport
"HaNivcheret" facilitator, 2019, in partnership with WIZO
Leah Shainbrom
Manager of the "Sicha" discussion groups
Raaya Mari
Projects manager, 2022–2025, and lead petitioner in the case against Shas
Malki Rotner
"HaNivcheret" facilitator, 2022 and 2026
Tzipi Lavi
Projects and government-relations manager, 2024