The site has a new look. The Women in Black protests were initiated and organized by the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace, an umbrella organization of ten Israeli women's peace organizations.
Women dress in black symbolizing the tragedy of the victims of violence.
Her name is Irena Klepfisz. She was born in 1941 in the Warsaw ghetto. Her father, a socialist, joined the resistance. He died during the Warsaw Uprising when he hurled himself on a Nazi machine gunner. Today, Klepfisz, an American poet, makes a plea for the Palestinians.