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Palestinian women on Saturday shouting slogans during a rally marking International Women's Day in the West Bank town of Ramallah. (AP)
Last update - 17:52 08/03/2008
Israel marks Int'l Women's Day with music, drama and art
By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press
Tags: Music, Condoleezza Rice 

Israel marked International Women's Day on Saturday with music, drama and art exhibits held across the country.

The Jerusalem Bible Lands Museum was to celebrate the day with a concert on Saturday evening, featuring singer Hagit Goldberg presenting the unique styles of female jazz vocalists. These were to vary from Ella Fitzgerald's improvisation to Billie Holiday's powerful vocals.

Art galleries in Holon were to host special exhibits dedicated to women, while the 2008 Woman's festival was marked at Holon Theatre and other venues around the city, with events aimed at exploring a woman's need to claim her own closed, personal space.
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One of the performances to be staged at Holon was "Creatures of the night," a show written by Anat Mor about three very tired new mothers during a long night relating how they experience motherhood.

Palestinian women also marked the day, holding small rallies in towns and villages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday led a group of powerful women, including presidents and prime ministers, in calling for a world where women's talents are used as much as men's to make peace and fight poverty.

Also last week, most female Knesset employees were banned from receiving either a promotion or a pay raise in 2008, after they failed to attend mandatory events in honor of International Women's Day.



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