Yael Braudo-Bahat

Israeli peace activist

Yael Braudo-Bahat (Hebrew: יעל ברוידא-בהט) is an Israeli peace activist, academic, and the current co-director of Women Wage Peace.^[1]

Career

After a bachelor's degree in law and accounting, Braudo-Bahat gained her master's in law, with a thesis on the law around breastfeeding. She gained a PhD in law from Tel Aviv University, specializing in family law, feminism and legal history. Her PhD thesis focused on Israeli women's organizations in Israel's first few decades, and their activity in securing property rights for women.^[2]^[3]

Braudo-Bahet has been an external lecturer at Tel Aviv University, and deputy editor of the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law.^[2] From 2017 until 2018, Braudo-Bahat was a visiting professor in Israel studies at York University in Canada.^[4]

Activism

Braudo-Bahat and fellow peace activist Vivian Silver founded Women Wage Peace together in 2014. The organization has over 50,000 members. Stressing the importance of women in the peace process, the WWP seeks a negotiated political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since 2021 it has collaborated with a Palestinian sister movement, Women of the Sun.^[5] By February 2023, Braudo-Bahat was the organization's co-director.^[6] As a member of Women Wage Peace, Braudo-Bahat has criticized government policies that restrict the entrance of Palestinian activists into Israel,^[6] and the continued 2023 Israel-Hamas war.^[1]^[7]

Braudo-Bahat has been interviewed by ABC News,^[1] France 24,^[7] and NPR's Here & Now^[8] about the peace movement's response to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

Silver, cited by Braudo-Bahat as a mentor at Women Wage Peace to whom she owed much,^[8] was killed by Hamas in their attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.^[5]

Recognition

In November 2023, Braudo-Bahat was named to the BBC's 100 Women list.^[5]

Publications

Braudo-Bahat, Yael (2016-04-20). "Towards a Relational Conceptualization of the Right to Personal Autonomy". American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. 25 (2): 111–154.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Video Co-Director of Women Wage Peace: 'We don't want any more victims on either side'". ABC News. 2023-11-17. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
^ ^a ^b "Yael Braudo-Bahat, Dr". Women Lawyers for Social Justice. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
^ "Yael Braudo-Bahat | The Buchmann Faculty of Law". en-law.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
^ "Research Associates and Visiting Scholars | Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies". York University. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c "BBC 100 Women 2023: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. November 23, 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
^ ^a ^b Roper, Harry (2023-02-13). "Israel said to ban entry to young Palestinian peace activists". The Times of Israel.
^ ^a ^b Young, Annette (2023-10-27). "The 51% - Palestinian and Israeli women activists call for end to bloodshed". France 24. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
^ ^a ^b "Palestinian-American family escapes Gaza; Remembering Israeli activist Vivian Silver". NPR. 2023-11-15. Retrieved November 23, 2023.