Nashim Medabrot” – “Women Talking”(in Hebrew) is a feminist television program, which is broadcast nationwide on community television channels throughout Israel.
 

The motives that inspired us to produce the program were:

  -A male dominant point of view in Israeli broadcasting which is expressed in both the choice 
   of any program theme and its method of presentation.

 - Women issues are generally raised in a negative context of violence and discrimination. 
    Although we are a majority in society, exposure that women receive in the media is that of
    a minority group.

 - Women’s lack of awareness regarding their social rights as well as the potential to use 
    power in order to achieve their goals.

 - An offensive treatment of women on commercials and the media.

 - The need for a TV program that may serve as a platform for all women to express 
    themselves and engage in earnest and ongoing feminist debate in Israeli society.

Our aim is to provide a female alternative in the media that will:

 - Present social and general issues from a feminine point of view.
 - Raise women’s issues while adopting an agenda that exercises an empowered and 
   egalitarian point of view.
 - Promote woman self-empowerment, thus leading to self-fulfillment and the upholding of their 
   rights.
- Enable any woman, who is willing, to have access to a means of production in order to let her 
  express herself.
- To produce an authentic mosaic of women’s voices that will represent the Israeli woman’s 
   voice.
 - To produce an alternative women’s language.
 - To provide a workplace which encourages the freedom of expression and authentic woman 
    expression.

The group

On January 1998, a group of women sharing a feminist view was found. It took almost a whole year for the unique program concept that suited our particular outlook to materialize. Today, a group that consists of 20-30 women works on a voluntarily basis. The group is heterogeneous and includes women of all different ages and professions.
The project is led by Dalit Ziv and Daniela Schwarz who are also the producers of program.
The group meets twice a month, but works together all week long.
The group is involved in all production stages, chooses the theme of the program and produces the videos themselves.
Decision-making in the group is conducted democratically.

We plan forthwith to establish Jewish and Arabic women groups all over the country and offer them video courses in order to let them produce and send videos to the program. This way, we’ll fulfill our aim in providing every woman, who so wishes, with the opportunity to speak up and express her self and share her voice and opinions with other women. 
 

The program

We produce a 30-minute program every two months. The program is broadcast once a week and following reruns are aired weekly for a period of two months nationwide on all community television channels.

The program is presented by the entire group. Each program has an overriding motif that is represented from many points of view. We have dealt with issues like the woman’s voice, motherhood, religion, food, sports etc…

In the program:

 - Reports on personal, social and political issues.
 - Our point of view on advertisements.
 - Our point of view on computers.
 - A panel of woman experts talking about issues raised on the programs.
 - A portion of the program is devoted to art.
 - Street talk – randomly interviewing women in the community.
 

Following are some of the issues included in the last couple of programs: 

 - Women involvement in the municipality elections.
 - Woman's voice."
 - An Israeli woman director, Miriam Keyni, talks about her work.
 - Art pieces created by the artists Tesi Cohen Pepper and Miri Nishri.
 - The relationship between a Russian mother and her daughter after moving to Israel.
 - Girls interviewing their mothers. 
 - Women on the Orthodox media.
 - Alternatives to Orthodox Judaism. 
 - Anorexia.
 - Women's festival.
 - A special Kabalat Shabat conducted in a Jewish Reform manner.
 - The lack of streets named after women.

Send us Videos for a special nationwide broadcast day On March 8th, 2000 “International Women’s Day"