משתמש:Stavarnon/חן אריאלי

ממוזער *שם הערך* - *שם המגדיר במה עוסק הערך, ומכאן מה חשיבותו של נושא הערך*

(Born on July 9, 1976) she is the Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and responsible for the Social Services Portfolio. Arieli is the Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, the first openly lesbian. She is a social activist, feminist and has been active in organizations in human rights arenas for the past twenty years. She served as Chair of the LGBT Association between 2015-2019 for two terms and was a leader of the LGBT protest (2018).

Chen Arieli was born and raised in Haifa to Dan and Leah, a sister to Orly Zarfati and Ran Arieli. She studied at the School of Arts high school in a graphic arts major. In her youth she volunteered at absorption centres with new immigrants from Ethiopia and was a member of the Scouts and HaNoar HaOved Ve’Lomed youth movement. In the IDF she served in the Home Front Command as a population instructor during emergency situations. After her military service she worked in fashion. During 2006-2011 she served as Deputy CEO of Roni Arnon Communications Israel.

During 2009-2013 she produced the International Festival for Gay Cinema – a Creative Culture for Change, in the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, in Berlin and in Brazil.

In 2011 she served as joint CEO of a business venture for marketing in the pride community sectors (in partnership with the Adler Chomsky advertising firm), the objective of which was to hone the marketing requirements of the gay community.

In 2012 she managed Merav Michali’s election headquarters in the primaries for the Labour Party and during 2013-2015 she was her spokesperson and political advisor during the 19th Knesset.

During 2015-2019 she founded and served as joint CEO of the social venture “Dugri” the objective of which is to promote networking awareness and collaborations in the civilian society in Israel; the establishment of a digital platform for networking and development of a methodology for a networking workshop in which some 300 social organizations participated in Israel. The venture was founded within the framework of the Incubator for Social Innovation with the support of the UJA Federation of New York. In 2017-2019 she counselled youth at risk in the Shanti House in Tel Aviv.

Arieli was a partner in the “Gay Literature” project and led a process of placing shelves with literature in municipal libraries in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality.

During 2017-2018 she was the director/partner in “Lethal Lesbian”, an Israeli lesbian film festival which is held once a year and presents selected films on a variety of issues - identity, love, politics, gender, relationships and culture. This is the first festival of its kind with the objective of promoting Israeli lesbian cinema and constituting a platform and springboard for women in the field of cinema and television.

Arieli worked as a business consultant for women’s social enterprises. She lectures nationwide on issues of body image and sizeism and conducts alternative marriage ceremonies at the Havaya Centre.

Public activity

During 2015-2010 Arieli served as Chair of the LGBT Association. During 2015-2016 she served as Joint Chair of the LGBT Association, together with Omri Calman..

Arieli and Calman led the struggle of the gay community in 2016. With the objective of promoting equality before the eyes of the law, she threatened to cancel the gay parade that takes place in Tel Aviv in June. As a result of this she led negotiations with the Ministry of Finance to increase the budgets for community organizations which received record budgeting of NIS 11 million.

In July 2017, in protest against discrimination of same sex couples in the adoption process she led a protest and demonstration opposite the Tel Aviv Government Complex with tens of thousands of participants. One year later, in July 2018, she led the protest for equality of the LGBT community. The strike took place nationwide alongside demonstrations throughout Israel in tens of protest points against inequality before the law and the lack of advancement of equal parental rights for same sex couples. In the ultimate event of the LGBT struggle a protest rally was held in Rabin Square with the participation of over 100,000 people.

Arieli initiated a project for training the members of the LGBT community to stand in local elections in October 2018. She initiated and founded a forum of gay organization managers and led the LGBT struggles for equality of rights in the election campaign for the 21st Knesset.

From an idealistic viewpoint that the feminist struggle incorporates the struggle for equal rights for the LGBT community, in December 2018 Arieli was one of the initiators of the largest historical women’s protest in Israel. She led the struggle for collaboration between Palestinian and Jewish women, the protest against murder of women and holding back a budget that was promised for a national emergency program for prevention of violence against women. Following the protest Arieli and partners founded a nationwide women’s grassroots movement.

Arieli is a member of the public committee of the Itach-Maaki Women Lawyers for Social Justice and is part of the advisory committee of Matzmichim - The Israeli Violence Reduction Organization in the educational system and is a member of the governing council of the LGBT Association. She represents the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality as a member of the governing council of the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts and “Ahuzat Hahof”.

Arieli was voted as one of the most influential women in the civilian arena at present, and was voted as one of the most outstanding social activists in Israel in the Yediot Aharonot newspaper list for 2017 and 2018 and the Globes list for 2018.

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ראו גם

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