Actor Mandy Patinkin expressed his support for Peace Now during a visit to Israel in 2012. ==Logo== Peace Now's logo was designed by Israeli graphic designer David Tartakover in 1978.
The logo emerged from a poster created by Tartakover for a mass rally, held in what is now Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on 1 April 1978, titled "Peace Now." It became the name of the organization, and was used on the first political bumper sticker in Israel.
Subsequently, tens of thousands of Israelis petitioned the Israeli government in support of the letter, and as a result the movement known as Peace Now was born. ==Early activism== Peace Now again came to prominence following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, and in particular the massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian Lebanese Phalangists at the Israeli controlled Sabra and the Shatila refugee camp.
On 25 September 1982 Peace Now held a mass protest in Tel Aviv in order to pressure the government to establish a national inquiry commission to investigate the massacres, as well as calling for the resignation of the Defence Minister Ariel Sharon.
Peace Now's 1982 demonstration was attended by 400,000 people, approximately 10% of Israel's population at the time. Subsequently, the Israeli government established the Kahan Commission on 28 September 1982.
Consequently, Peace Now decided to hold a demonstration on 10 February 1983 that marched from Zion Square towards the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem in order to pressure the government to do so. ===Emil Grunzweig=== In the wake of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, Peace Now led a march from Zion Square and moved towards the Prime Ministers' Office in Jerusalem on 10 February 1983.
However, he remained in the government as a minister without portfolio. ==Peace Now and the First Intifada (1987–1993)== In 1988 Yasser Arafat (Chairman of the PLO) publicly accepted United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 at the PNC in Algiers.
Following this, Peace Now led the Hands Around Jerusalem event, in which 25,000 Israelis and Palestinians linked hands to encircle the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in a chain of peace. In part due to the Israeli-Palestinian discourse engendered by Peace Now and its activists, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and Yasser Arafat succeeded in signing the Declaration of Principles/Oslo Accords on the lawn of the White House on 13 September 1993.
In the ensuing confrontation, Yona Avrushmi tossed a hand-grenade into the crowd, killing Emil Grunzweig, a prominent Peace Now activist, and injuring several others. Yona Avrushmi was duly arrested, convicted of murder and given a mandatory life sentence, which was commuted to 27 years by President Ezer Weizman in 1995.
Its main objective is to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, and to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace based on a two-state solution. ===Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip=== Peace Now was a key advocate of Israel's 2004 Disengagement Plan.
Peace Now led the 'Mate ha-Rov' ("majority camp") demonstration on 14 May 2004 in Tel Aviv, in order to pressure the Israeli government to adopt the Disengagement Plan.
In 2006, Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheimer reportedly urged the U.S.
that it is doing something, but in exchange it is trying to co-opt the settlers by retroactively approving some outposts and giving them a freer hand in building in the West Bank." ===2006 settlement report=== In a report issued in November 2006, Peace Now wrote that 38.8 percent of the land set aside for Israeli settlements, outposts and industrial land in the West Bank was privately owned by Palestinians.
Tartakover, commenting in 2006, said: "The movement activists liked the logo, but they thought there should also be a symbol.
Dror Aktes headed this committee until 2007 when he was replaced by Hagit Ofran.
In 2008 Peace Now received from the Norwegian embassy, from the British Foreign Office, from Germany's Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, and from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to Im Tirtzu, Peace Now received from the embassy of Norway in 2009, as well as from the United Kingdom and from the Belgian government. The Knesset passed a law in 2008 requiring Israeli organizations to publicize any foreign funding they receive.
According to Im Tirtzu, Peace Now received from the embassy of Norway in 2009, as well as from the United Kingdom and from the Belgian government. The Knesset passed a law in 2008 requiring Israeli organizations to publicize any foreign funding they receive.
Avrushmi was released on 26 January 2011. As a result of mounting public pressure on Menachem Begin to adopt the Kahan Commission's recommendations Ariel Sharon agreed to step down as Defence Minister.
Approximately two months later, another 'price tag' attack was carried out, again at Hagit Ofran's residence. At the 2011 Rabin commemoration rally in Tel Aviv, Hagit Ofran stated in reference to the recent 'price tag attacks': "The graffiti was sprayed in my home, but the taunts are in all of our stairwells.
And today we say to Benjamin Netanyahu: We are not afraid." On 6 November 2011, Peace Now's Jerusalem office received a bomb threat.
On 27 November 2011, it was reported that the unnamed individual issued death-threats (via email) against all of Peace Now's core team from his Jerusalem house.
In 2011, the Knesset passed a law which required organizations to report each quarter on any foreign funding they receive.
In November 2011, Benyamin Netanyahu's government began proceedings to introduce legislation which would place a ILS 20,000 (approx $5000) limit on what NGOs could receive from foreign governments, government-supported foundations and/or groups of governments (e.g.
Actor Mandy Patinkin expressed his support for Peace Now during a visit to Israel in 2012. ==Logo== Peace Now's logo was designed by Israeli graphic designer David Tartakover in 1978.
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