Studies Program at Beit Berl and was appointed as its first chairwoman. Mizrahi Activism Shiran was a prominent activist against all forms of oppression of human rights in Israel. She made her mark in particular in three main areas: The struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace, feminism, and the rights of the Mizrahim. She often expressed herself in ways that were considered by some to be provocative. For example, she said, "For anyone living in a distressed neighborhood, it means that the state fucked them. As simple as that... In Israeli society there is inequality. The inequality is not only according to class, it also has color." Shiran identified with leftist organizations in Israel and often protested the occupation of the Palestinian territories and expressed support for the establishment of a Palestinian state. She became active in Mizrahi-identified organizations and struggles against the occupation starting in 1970, including the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow and the East to Peace. She participated in numerous peace conferences and demonstrations in Israel and Europe. As a feminist, Shiran was one of the founders of the Mizrahi Women's Group, which was created to awaken the public feminist discourse in Israel, in light of what she saw as the failure of the second wave of feminism: "It is possible that because Israeli feminism remained insular from, and even disregarded social issues, it has remained as a wallflower in the public discourse." In 1999, this group became the Mizrahi feminist movement Achoti - for Women in Israel, which promotes economic, social and cultural justice, and solidarity with women of low socio-economic status in Israeli. Shiran began her Mizrahi activism in her youth in the Hatikva neighborhood: First, as a leading figure in the Mizrahi youth social protest movements, and then throughout the 1970s and 1980s in the Black Panthers, Citizens for Neighborhoods, the Eastern Front, and more. From 1969 to 1975 she directed the community theater in Jaffa. In 1981 she initiated The "Israel-That's Me!" conference, discussing the rifts between the Ashkenazi establishment and Mizrahi and Palestinian-Israeli citizens of Israel in the open for the first time. This led her to establish the New Direction Stage at the HaTikva slum, where she and her activist friends invited Ashkenazi politicians and public figures so that they hear their criticism about the overlap between Israel's ethnic and class divides. In the early 1980s, she headed the "Tsalash" movement (Zionism for Equality), whose