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The Zionist still holding a candle for peace and equality
Whenever the peace organisation Peace Now brought tens of thousands of Israelis out into the streets for peace in the late 1980s, teenager Hagit Ofran stood on the sidelines and watched, fascinated.
She still felt too young to join in.
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But a few years later – it was 1995 and Ofran had just completed her military service – she watched the parliamentary debate on the signing of the Oslo II Accord on television.
Two members of parliament from the Labour Party, the mainstay of the peace camp at the time, voted against the signing.
21-year-old Ofran could not believe it. Without further ado, she became a member of the Labour Party in order to have a say in its primary elections, and shortly thereafter became active in the organisation Peace Now.
Hagit Ofran is now the executive director of Peace Now's Settlement Watch programme – and probably knows more about Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories than any other Isr