Miri Sheinfield

Miri lives in Givat Ada. She is involved in photography, teaching, and writing. For the past 20 years, she has been teaching photography, mainly in gifted education centers, and combines photography and writing in her blog "Local Portrait". She sees education as a challenge and an opportunity to influence and convey social values and messages, with photography serving as a platform for creation and addressing various issues, not just as a field of knowledge. A few years ago, she participated in a two-year training program for Arab and Jewish teachers, aimed at connecting teachers from both sectors to initiate joint projects together. Following the training, she conducted, together with an Arab teacher, a workshop for gifted students from East and West Jerusalem. She wants and hopes to continue working on such collaborations in the future in order to continue creating connections and relationships between youth from both sectors. Additionally, she volunteers in the "Ivraniyot" project with Arab students in Kafr Qara.

She has been active in "Women Wage Peace" for about 7 years and is a member of the WWP group of Hof HaCarmel. In the past, she was active in the movement's "Migvan" (Diversity) group, but her main activity in the past year has been in a group that meets and maintains daily dialogue with a group of settler women. The purpose of the meetings and discourse is to create bridges with right-wing women living in settlements, using non-violent communication, despite the significant differences of opinion between them.

As a council member of "All Its Citizens", she currently coordinates the activities of the Field Committee, which aims to recruit new members to the movement through presence at conferences, demonstrations, and large events, as well as by contacting people who might be interested in the party.

Her belief is that the only way to live here together is in partnership and equality between Jews and Arabs, with an emphasis on creating a new shared narrative.