ABSTRACT

In the first elections for the Israeli parliament (January 1949) WIZO ran as a women's party seeking equal rights for women. It won enough votes for a parliamentary seat – highly unusual in that day and age. WIZO was unique in that it started out as an apolitical women's organisation aligned with the mid-stream Zionist consensus and redefined itself as a party fighting for gender equality.This article examines the developments in the General Zionist Party that led WIZO, founded as a women's philanthropic organisation, to run as an independent political party on its own platform on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. It will also look at the impact of WIZO party on Israel's center-right - the General Zionists, the Progressive party and Herut - in the context of the Constituent Assembly elections. The establishment of a women's party in 1948-49 was a unique phenomenon with no equal anywhere in the world at the time.

摘要

在以色列议会的第一次选举（1949 年 1 月）中，WIZO 作为一个寻求妇女平等权利的妇女政党而运作。它赢得了足够多的议会席位选票——在那个时代和时代非常不寻常。WIZO 的独特之处在于，它最初是一个与犹太复国主义中游共识保持一致的非政治性妇女组织，并将自己重新定义为一个争取性别平等的政党。本文探讨了领导 WIZO 的总犹太复国主义党的发展，该党是作为妇女成立的慈善组织，在以色列国成立前夕，作为一个独立的政党在自己的平台上运作。它还将在制宪议会选举的背景下研究 WIZO 党对以色列中右翼的影响——犹太复国主义将军、进步党和赫鲁特。