International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Zero tolerance for all forms of violence was the message conveyed by all of the speakers on the study day at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Medical center staff from all sectors participated in the study day, which was organized by Ms. Daniella Akev, Head of Gender Equality and Promotion of Women at Hillel Yaffe. The program included a screening of the documentary, Freeflow, winner of the Other Israel Award for an Israeli Documentary Film at the Haifa International Film Festival, 2011. The hero of the film, Avshalom is a parkour champion (an extreme sport that includes vaulting over fences and walls, rolling, leaping from roof to roof and more), copes together with his family with the imprisonment of his father, who is now about to be released. After the film, the participants held an open discussion with Avshalom and the filmmaker, Ramy Katz. The participants were very interested in learning more and asked questions about the Gil family, Avshalom’s personal life and about his mother's life in the years since the film was made. 

As previously mentioned, during the study day, speakers included Dr. Mickey Dudkiewicz, Director General of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, who addressed the fact that as employees of a medical center, an organization dedicated to healing both body and soul, they have an obligation do everything possible to prevent all forms of violence against women; Ms. Dina Fainblat, Nursing Director, cited sad statistics on violence against women and reminded the women in the audience that they must look in the mirror every day with pride, and Dr. Amnon Ben Moshe, Administrative Director, noted that sexual harassment is a form of violence that has no place in the hospital. He called on anyone who felt they were a victim to make a complaint.

Avshalom Gil and Ramy Katz discussing the film, Freeflow