The American Jewish Woman Who Brought Feminism to Israel

Marcia Freedman was a Knesset pioneer when the women's movement in the U.S. was already underway.

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For months the Knesset speaker rejected Marcia Freedman's request to speak about domestic violence in the legislature. In the end, the Knesset member finally received permission to raise the issue. "I hadn't even finished saying the words 'Honorable speaker, honorable Knesset,' when the heckling began," recalls Freedman, who is now 71.

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