Alice Shalvi (1926-2023)

Die in Deutschland (Essen) als Alice Hildegard Margulies geborene Israel-Preisträgerin, Frauenrechtlerin und Aktivistin starb am 2. Oktober in (West-)Jerusalem.

Aus dem Nachruf in Ha’aretz:

„Born and raised in an Orthodox family, Shalvi had a complicated relationship with Judaism. She belonged to a Conservative congregation and observed Shabbat and kashrut, but never hid the fact that she found the traditional Jewish prayers hard to digest. “The whole concept of God as male, it’s difficult for me,” she said in the 2018 interview. “There are certain things I keep on doing because that’s what we did at home and that’s what distinguishes me as a Jew – my folklore, if you like – but as far as my conception of God is concerned, it’s changed very radically.
During the last decades, Shalvi was an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestinian territories. Her leftist views were also the reason she was forced out of her job as the principal of the Pelech School. „The worst thing that has happened is that we’ve become an occupying country,” she said. “I think that power corrupts and that to have power over another people and denying freedom that you enjoy yourself to others is sinful. What we have is a very ugly occupation.”