Angela Godfrey-Goldstein

An Anglo-Israeli. Her previous career was in the British theatre, including West End, TV, film and radio drama. She immigrated to Israel in 1981, to study painting with an Israeli (autodidact) teacher, becoming an abstract colourist and tile painter. Living in Sinai for four years as an environmental activist, she organized the saving of Ras Mohammed Marine Park from a Crown of Thorns plague, ran a Bedouin women’s fair trade handicrafts bazaar and ran a tourism magazine in Sharm el Sheikh. A peace activist since 2002, in Jerusalem, she co-directs a Palestinian non-profit: Jahalin Solidarity, whose advocacy works to prevent Palestinian forcible displacement.