Anat Thon-Ashkenazy is a lawyer and feminist activist. She is former CEO of the NGO Itach-Maaki (“with you” in Hebrew and Arabic) – Women Lawyers for Social Justice, where she represented dozens of women’s organizations that demand equality and equal representation in decision-making bodies for women from diverse groups in Israel and initiated and led the design of the Comprehensive Action Plan for the Implementation of United Nation Security Council Resolution 1325.