3/14 Conference Call: Equality and Equal Employment Opportun...

Please join our next educational conference call briefing with Adv. Tziona Koenig-Yair, EEOC Commissioner, and Mohammed Darawshe, Co-Executive Director of The Abraham Fund Initiatives. Adv. Koenig Yair and Mr. Darawshe will discuss the current state of equality and Israel's recently established Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. The call will take place on Wednesday, March 14th at 12:00 ??12:40 pm Eastern Standard Time. To join, RSVP to Michal Cohen at [email protected] or (212) 885-0825. Call-In Information: US and Canada - (866) 794-4960 Passcode: 738 770 Outside the US and Canada - (630) 299-0025 Passcode: 738 770 *** Speaker Bios Mohammad Darawshe Co-Executive Director of The Abraham Fund Initiatives, Israel Prior to The Abraham Fund, Mohammad served as the Deputy Director General of the Givat Haviva Institute and served in senior positions at several other Israeli coexistence organizations. He has lectured before the European Parliament, the NATO Defense College, the World Economic Forum and the Jewish Funders Network. He is recipient of the Peace and Security Award of the World Association of NGOs. Adv. Tziona Koening-Yair Commissioner for Equality of Opportunity in Employment Adv. Tziona Koenig-Yair is the National Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission in Israel. She holds an LLB degree from the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University, and passed the Israeli Bar Exam in 1996. For the past 14.5 years, Ms. Koenig-Yair has spent a good part of her legal career addressing equality issues from various aspects. Tziona started her way as a legal prosecutor at the District Attorney's office in Tel-Aviv. From the year 2000-2006, Ms. Koenig-Yair worked in the legal department of the Israel Women's Network (IWN), Israel's foremost advocacy group for women, first as Legal Counsel and then as head of the legal department. In 2007 Ms. Koenig-Yair was appointed Executive Director of the "IWN" and managed the organization for a year until being appointed first National Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission in Israel (EEOC). The EEOC is a government body enforcing equal opportunities in the labor market on many grounds including gender. EEOC has authority by law to investigate discrimination claims, file law suits and promote awareness to equality. During her career Koenig-Yair has published many editorials in leading newspapers in Israel on the various aspects of equality in the workforce. In her national and international work, Ms. Koenig-Yair is committed to promoting equality and is concerned with strengthening and supporting the promotion of equality both from a legal perspective and a public one.