Hey everybody I'm Aaron Ryan and I'm Alyssa Master Monaco.

So Alyssa and I have talked a lot about how to address the horror we've all watched unfold

over the last few days in Israel. The attacks on Saturday were massacres. There's no other way to describe it.

What was executed against innocent civilians was disgusting, abhorrent, morally indefensible. We'll be posting organizations doing

incredible work helping victims of this unspeakable violence on both sides of the

border in our show notes. As we took in the news we learned about

someone who we thought you all should know about

too, Vivian Silver. Vivian is a 74-year-old Jewish-Canadian Israeli peace activist and a founding

member of women wage peace.

For the last 50 years Vivian has worked to create a shared society between Jews and Arabs

known on both sides of the border as an irrepressible force and a titan in our space.

She moved to Israel in 1974, working for gender equality

and social justice.

When she founded the Israeli group, Women Wage Peace,

a grassroots organization of thousands of Arab and Jewish

women seeking a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

She took the organization well beyond rallies.

Arranging transportation for Gaza residents to Israeli hospitals for cancer treatments was among many of her extracurriculars.

Just last week Vivian led a women wage peace march together with the Palestinian women of the sun, which was attended

by thousands of women from around the world, Jews and Arabs, secular and religious, including

dignitaries from Finland, Ireland, and Israel. Days later, Vivian, who has dedicated

her life to building peace and lifting the siege in Gaza, is now presumed to be dead

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