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Bat Shalom is a feminist non-governmental organization, the Israeli side of the Israel-Palestine alliance, the Jerusalem Link. Formed in September of 1993, Bat Shalom strives to seek resolutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict that benefit Israeli and Palestinian women. Along with their Palestinian counterpart, the Jerusalem Center for Women, Bat Shalom has created a list of objectives in an effort to achieve peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Whilst being separate organizations, both groups often do joint activities together. However, these activities eventually diminished, due to a conflict of interest exclusively within Bat Shalom.

Founding
Following the Intifada of 1987, several Israeli feminist groups—known as the Women in Black —formed in response to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Furthermore, Palestinian activists also formed their own feminist groups, as part of the occupation protest. These Palestinian women also joined the Women in Black movement. As a result, on September 13, 1993, Simone Susskind helped start a feminist revolution for peace—the birth of the non-governmental organizations of the Jerusalem Center for Women (the Palestinian side), and Bat Shalom (the Israeli side). Both groups came together as The Jerusalem Link, and created a set of objectives and requirements for a peace treaty between Israel and Palestine. Through the Jerusalem Link, both Bat Shalom and the Jerusalem Center for Women agreed to and signed a  joint list of demands. These objectives were created to benefit both sides of the peace process, while respecting land borders and favouring women's causes at the same time. Bat Shalom, translated from Hebrew, means "Daughter of Peace." Despite the Jerusalem Center for Women set up in Jerusalem, Bat Shalom was initially established in Northern Israel. For the first several years of the organization's existence, the women were successfully running the non-governmental organization. Although the Jerusalem Link had a rocky start, by 1996, Bat Shalom proved successful not only in the pursuit of their goals, but also while working with the Jerusalem Center for Women.

Split & Eventual Inactivity
In later years, Bat Shalom split into two factions—its Jerusalem location, and their Northern Israel location. Their vast differences caused the demise of Bat Shalom. This is because of a few reasons, one of them being the strained relationship between the Jerusalem location and the Jerusalem Center for Women. Another important reason as to why Bat Shalom fell apart, was because of the trouble within the NGO itself. Bat Shalom Jerusalem and Bat Shalom Northern Israel differed considerably with respect to the NGO's goals. Bat Shalom in the north fought for complete Palestinian equality, while its Jerusalem location stopped short at ending the occupation. Furthermore, the split became more apparent after the turning point of a Bat Shalom event, where some of the members wanted to use racism as a theme for Israelis to become more aware of the conflict. This prompted many members of Bat Shalom to part ways, because they did not agree that Zionism or Israeli nationalism was racist. Once the two different locations of Bat Shalom separated, the northern location changed its name to Bat Zafon, meaning "Daughter of the North." Due to the split, Bat Shalom eventually became inactive because the North, where the activities were usually held, lost its main source of funding (from Jerusalem). Thus, since 2006, Bat Shalom has remained inactive.

Goals
Since its founding in 1993, Bat Shalom, the Israeli side of The Jerusalem Link, has worked with the Jerusalem Center for Women, seeking a peaceful, feminist solution for Israel-Palestine. Their website provides a list of objectives that they had created in order to obtain this solution. To do this, Bat Shalom works on their own goals for peace, but they also collaborated with the Jerusalem Center for Women, to try to ensure the main objective remains the same—a feminist solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bat Shalom's objectives include:
 * Reinstate the borders from before the 1967 Six-Day War
 * Jerusalem is no longer divided, but rather, shared as a capital
 * Adhere to The Oslo Declarations of Principles that were signed on September 13, 1993
 * The Israeli settlements are deemed officially illegal
 * Israel must admit to creating the problem of Palestinian refugees before the issue is resolved
 * International law must be respected
 * Once peace is achieved, it will be honoured respectfully between Israelis and Palestinians
 * Women cannot be excluded; in fact, they must be one of the biggest players in achieving peace
 * No violence allowed
 * No Israeli military in any other area of the Middle East

Funding
Bat Shalom as a group is a part of the Coalition of Women for Peace, a movement that is made up of nine separate organizations, including Bat Shalom. The Coalition of Women for Peace partners with various organizations, who help fund the coalition. Bat Shalom also partners with the New Israel Fund, as the donations for some of Bat Shalom's initiatives have been sent to the NIF office. Furthermore, Bat Shalom, along with its counterpart, the Jerusalem Center for Women, received funding from the European Union.

Activities
As of March 2006, Bat Shalom has been inactive. However, in the past, the organization has hosted a variety of activities, in an attempt to solidify the relationship between Israeli and Palestinian women. Often, these activities would take place in Northern Israel-Palestine, where a subsection of Bat Shalom was located. Several notable activities include: These activities were most often in collaboration with the Jerusalem Center for Women.
 * International Women's Day Events
 * Participating in one another's cultural holidays
 * Joint peaceful protesting

Cultural Holidays
As one of their more frequent activities, the Jerusalem Link would go back and forth with hosting various cultural events, where open discussions were often held. An example of one of these events was Bat Shalom's annual Sukkah event, which Bat Shalom would host during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. They invited the women of the Jerusalem Center for Women to discuss issues and even organize protests. Every year, the women of Bat Shalom would have a different theme, and everyone would have discussions based on that theme.

Controversies
Controversies often happened not directly because of Bat Shalom, but because of surrounding events. Tensions ran high between Bat Shalom and the Jerusalem Center for Women often in times of war between Israel and Palestine. However, the two organizations were always able to come together at the end of the day, because they shared the common ground of feminist objectives. However, there were a few controversies that occured while Bat Shalom was still active. One of these controversies was during one of Bat Shalom's annual Sukkah events. Every year Bat Shalom had a different theme for this event, and in the year 2002, they chose one that was said to be controversial: racism. This upset many Israelis, including some of Bat Shalom's own members. They often argued that Zionism was a matter of believing in Israel's right to exist, and not actually a matter of racism. It is also important to note that as a result of this infamous Sukkot event, many members of Bat Shalom left the organization due to the split in ideology.

Another move that was seen as controversial, was the annual commemoration of Land Day by the Palestinians, where Bat Shalom decided to correlate occupied land directly with feminism. This event was most often not collaborated with the entire community of Bat Shalom, but rather, just the Northern faction, since Bat Shalom's Jerusalem faction found that this activity (along with certain other collaborations) did not correspond to their objectives.

Recognition
Bat Shalom has most often been recognized for not only being an organization devoted to the peace process between Israel and Palestine, but rather, for being led and run by both Israeli and Palestinian women. As well, Bat Shalom has been most often recognized through their contact with the UN, as well as through their political activities. Furthermore, as a member of the Coalition of Women for Peace, Bat Shalom has often recognized through this coalition.