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Conscientious objector Aiden Katri enters the IDF’s Tel Hashomer induction base, where she was sentenced to military prison, March 29, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Transgender conscientious objector is sent to Israeli military prison

Aiden Katri is refusing to be conscripted into the Israeli army because of the occupation and as a feminist statement. The army sent her to a men’s prison. Before heading to prison she wrote: ’It is time for an alliance of the victims of oppression.’ Transgender conscientious objector Aiden Katri was sentenced to military prison…

By Haggai Matar March 30, 2016

Seven Nights 1: The Stabbing

The plan was to write a leisurely travel journal: a record of Canaan’s summer nights, but the journey began with a dark event: a stabbing at Jerusalem pride, and took on a different nature. Welcome to a seven-part, nocturnal diary of shock and recovery, a true story from an emotional land. For other nights click…

By Yuval Ben-Ami August 4, 2015

PHOTOS: Tel Aviv protest denounces violence against transgender people

Photos and report by: Oren Ziv and Keren Manor/Activestills.org Approximately 1,000 transgender and LGBTQ activists marched Thursday night along the streets of Tel Aviv to protest transphobic hate crimes. The protest, organized by “Gila – Project for Trans Empowerment,” was held following an attack on a trans sex worker two weeks ago in Tel Aviv by eleven…

By Activestills January 17, 2014

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