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Impression of Vivian Silver
Channah's Fire Gallery
“Enough, enough. We’re no longer willing to do this. We must reach a political agreement. We must change the paradigm that we have been taught for seven decades now, where we’ve been told that only war will bring peace. We don’t believe that anymore. It’s been proven that it’s not true.”
Vivian Silver was a Canadian-Israeli peace activist and women's rights activist. She co-founded the interfaith grassroots organization Women Wage Peace and the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation.
Vivian Silver was executive director for the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development and worked to organize programs to help Gazans and ensure that Gazan construction workers at the kibbutz were paid fairly.
Born in 1949 and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Silver immigrated to Israel in 1974. She was killed during the Be'eri massacre, a part of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.
Eirene was the Greek goddess of peace, daughter of Zeus and Themis, often depicted as a young woman.