The Rappaport Prize for Women Generating Change was awarded to Hanna Zohar, the founder of the organization “Kav LaOved” for lifetime and long-term achievement. Zohar, aged 65 from Tel Aviv, experienced wage discrimination while working as a hotel chambermaid. When she decided to establish “Kav LaOved” to correct employee injustices, she financed her activities from her salary as a typist.

With much legwork and extreme effort, she spearheaded a revolution in the rights of foreign workers. “Kav LaOved” fights the exploitation of workers and the denial of basic rights by their employers. It offers representation for victims with authorities such as immigration, police, and others. In its few years of activity, it has been credited with providing hundreds and thousands of cases of assistance to employees in need and the promotion of their equal status in the law and court rulings.