Mother of Jewish feminism & Israel Prize laureate awarded a lifetime prize by the Kiverstein Institute.
The Jerusalem Post
By Peggy CIdor
Published: OCTOBER 21, 2021
Last week, on the eve of her 95th birthday, Israel Prize laureate and Professor Emeritus Alice Shalvi was awarded a lifetime prize by the Kiverstein Institute. Yet it wasn’t just another prize for the nonagenarian, seen by many as the mother of Jewish feminism in Israel and in Jerusalem particularly, but a kind of rewarding closure.In a wheelchair at the ceremony but still clearer, sharper and livelier than ever, Shalvi was privileged to meet some of her former students, who all continue to walk in her path from the days she ran the first feminist girls school in the city, Pelech.In many ways, the Kiverstein Institute – founded by Melinda Jones, a Melbourne-based human rights lawyer and president of the National Council of Jewish Women in Australia, and run in Jerusalem by her sister Peta Jones Pellach, and storyteller and feminist activist Hamutal Guri – could be considered as the fulfillment of Shalvi’s feminist vision. See her book here.