Dina Feldman

Biography

Feldman is a clinical psychologist, born in 1950, in Haifa, Israel, to Abraham Mevarech (BĘCZKOWSKI), a pioneer of the Mizrachi movement in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland and of Hapoel HaMizrachi in Israel, and Paula (née Drobner – Gast), born in Vienna, Austria.

Between 1973 and 1993, Feldman served as a psychologist in the Israel Defense Forces: the Women and Medical Corps. Between 1993 and 1999, she was on the team that planned the Israeli Mental Health Reform. Between 2002 and 2007, Feldman served as the Israeli Commissioner for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities and established the Israeli Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Ministry of Justice (Israel). Further, Feldman was active in the legislation of the Accessibility Chapter of the Israeli Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law in 1998, which passed in 2005, and headed the Israeli team in writing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2007. Between 2009 and 2010, she was a committee member and then executive director of "Kolech – Religious Women Forum". Since 2010, she has been active in the preservation of the history of the Jews in Poland, before, during and after the Holocaust, and in cross cultural, educational and interfaith dialogue.