Manuela Dviri

Manuela Dviri is an Italo-Israeli activist and journalist, nominated by the popular newspaper Yediot Aharonot as one of the 50 women that shaped the most Israeli history. After the death of her son, soldier in the Israeli army, she started her campaign of complaints toward the Netanyahu government and started mobilizing herself for peace, asking the Israeli government to retreat from Lebanon, which happened one year later. Her devotion towards peace has never fainted and after the war in Lebanon and the start of the Intifada, she started creating even more collaborations with Palestinian especially. The most relevant success of her peace dialogues is “Saving Children”: a project that tries to heal and cure sick Palestinian children that cannot be cured and treated in Israeli hospitals. The project included Israeli and Palestinian doctors together and is financed by the Italian government as well.