Sonia Gomes de Mesquita, the Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Impact delivered an address during the Israeli's Knesset Committee on the promotion of the status of women and gender equality.
As part of her remarks, Sonia credited the excellent work that is being done in the schools in the hospitals all across Israel, which are led mainly by women. This is a part of the mandatory law in Israel to provide education to all hospitalized children in Israel who stay at the hospital for more than three days, in partnership with the SASA Setton initiative.