Ruth Matar, Co-Founder of the Women in Green, passed away on Saturday.
Founded in 1993 with her husband and originally called “Women for Israel’s Tomorrow,” the group sought to destroy media stereotypes of those opposing land concessions by showing mothers, housewives, and career women who could intelligently articulate Israel’s cause.
Women in Green has been leading the discourse over the vision of full Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.
Nadia Matar, Ruth’s daughter-in-law, together with Yehudit Katzover, currently lead the Women in Green. Nadia recently recounted Ruth’s influence. “Ruth taught us all that we must not be silent and that when a Jew is in distress, you leave everything else aside and mobilize to help him…loyalty is the highest virtue – loyalty to the People, to the Torah, to the Land and to the family.
May the family be comforted among all those who mourn for Zion and Jerusalem and may they know no more sorrow.