Ortal Ben Dayan

== Activism ==

== Activism ==

===Mizrahi feminism and social justice work===

===Mizrahi feminism and social justice work===

Ben Dayan describes her activism as [[intersectionality|intersectional]]. She is active in many areas involving social justice, [[feminism]] and [[gender]], racism and [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] social status, as well as issues of class and the social and geographic periphery, including the "fast-tracking" of Mizrahi youth to trade schools and blue collar professions. She traces her Mizrahi and gender awareness back to the racism she experienced in high school, which she describes as acutely gendered, for example, when she was called a "freha" (a derogatory term for Mizrahi women) by her schoolmates in the kibbutz school.{{cite news |last1=רשף |first1=רפי |title="אינטימי" עם רפי רשף |url=http://10tv.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1211111 |accessdate=February 11, 2019 |publisher=Channel 10 Television |date=September 22, 2016 |language=Hebrew |archive-date=October 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003230030/http://10tv.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1211111 |url-status=dead }} While studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben Dayan was involved with the "Landa program" for social involvement, and was a community coordinator for the "Alon" NGO in the [[Gilo]] settlement, a Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, responsible for reducing gaps in education.

Ben Dayan describes her activism as [[intersectionality|intersectional]]. She is active in many areas involving social justice, [[feminism]] and [[gender]], racism and [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] social status, as well as issues of class and the social and geographic periphery, including the "fast-tracking" of Mizrahi youth to trade schools and blue collar professions. She traces her Mizrahi and gender awareness back to the racism she experienced in high school, which she describes as acutely gendered, for example, when she was called a "freha" (a derogatory term for Mizrahi women) by her schoolmates in the kibbutz school.{{cite news |last1=רשף |first1=רפי |title="אינטימי" עם רפי רשף |url=http://10tv.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1211111 |accessdate=February 11, 2019 |publisher=Channel 10 Television |date=September 22, 2016 |language=Hebrew |archive-date=October 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003230030/http://10tv.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1211111 |url-status=dead }} While studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben Dayan was involved with the "Landa program" for social involvement, and was a community coordinator for the "Alon" NGO in the [[Gilo]] settlement, a Jewish neighborhood in [[East Jerusalem]], responsible for reducing gaps in education.

Afterwards, she became active in the [[Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition]], where she was a member of the executive committee and spokeswoman during 2009–2010. In 2010 she was also the academic coordinator for [[Naamat]], where she conducted seminars on women in the workforce. Also in 2010, she began working for the Mizrahi feminist organization [[Ahoti – for Women in Israel|Achoti – for Women in Israel]], where she ran an anti-racism project and conducted a writing program called "Women Create a Language of Peace", in which women from various marginalized groups participated, including Mizrahi women, Palestinian women, women from the former [[Soviet Union]], and others. The project culminated in the publication of a book compiling the women's writings.{{cite news |last1=Saar |first1=Tsafi |title=הדרת הנשים מכנס הגינקולוגיה: למה לעצור שם? |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/mejunderet/1.1613274 |accessdate=February 11, 2019 |publisher=[[Ha'aretz]] |date=January 10, 2012 |language=Hebrew}}

Afterwards, she became active in the [[Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition]], where she was a member of the executive committee and spokeswoman during 2009–2010. In 2010 she was also the academic coordinator for [[Naamat]], where she conducted seminars on women in the workforce. Also in 2010, she began working for the Mizrahi feminist organization [[Ahoti – for Women in Israel|Achoti – for Women in Israel]], where she ran an anti-racism project and conducted a writing program called "Women Create a Language of Peace", in which women from various marginalized groups participated, including Mizrahi women, Palestinian women, women from the former [[Soviet Union]], and others. The project culminated in the publication of a book compiling the women's writings.{{cite news |last1=Saar |first1=Tsafi |title=הדרת הנשים מכנס הגינקולוגיה: למה לעצור שם? |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/mejunderet/1.1613274 |accessdate=February 11, 2019 |publisher=[[Ha'aretz]] |date=January 10, 2012 |language=Hebrew}}