Mid-Maine Global Forum – Can Health Be a Bridge to Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians (Oct. 29)

With Hadas Ziv of Israel,
Colby College Oak Fellow for 2009

Time and Date: Thursday, October 29, 11:45 a.m.
Place: The Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville
Price: $10 (Includes lunch catered by the Bread Box Cafe)
Registration: Call 859-4624 or e-mail no later than Wednesday, October 28, at 4:00 p.m. Please specify your choice of wrap.

The lunch buffet includes soup, mixed green salad with balsamic Dijon dressing, fresh homemade dessert, coffee/tea or water, and a half wrap:

• Turkey: turkey BLT with roasted garlic aioli
• Veggie: baby spinach, cucumbers, olives, tomatoes, carrot, feta and vinaigrette dressing
• Crab: fresh Maine crab meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, avocado (when in season) and Louis dressing.

The program is also open to those who choose not to have lunch. Those who are not eating do not need to register in advance.

About Hadas Ziv

Ms. Ziv is the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel). She is responsible for guiding the mission of PHR-Israel and managing a full-time staff of 17 and over 1,500 members.

Even as executive director, Ms. Ziv continues to be on the front line of human rights work, leading her team in their campaigns to help Palestinians under siege in Gaza to gain access to health care, to promote health rights of Palestinian women married to Israelis but denied civil status, to promote the rights of migrants living with HIV/AIDS in Israel without health insurance, and perhaps most successfully, to pressure the Israeli Health Ministry to support health care provision for the influx of refugees and migrants from African conflict zones seeking asylum in Israel.