members included Daniel Ben Simon and sociologist Sammy Smooha. In 1981 the movement petitioned the High Court of Justice against the Israel Broadcasting Authority. The suit claimed that the historical series "Pillar of Fire" ignores the existence of the Mizrahim and denies their role in building the nation. Shiran demanded that the series be banned until this bias is corrected. Shiran's claim was rejected by the High Court of Justice, but the verdict, known as "the Shiran Appeal", became a milestone in the Mizrahi struggle against discrimination in Israel. In 1981, she joined Tami (Traditional Movement of Israel), a political party that appealed to the traditional Mizrahi religious community, and was headed by Aharon Abuhatzeira. Shiran became the party spokesperson. In 1996 she was one of the founders of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition, a movement that fought for social, economic and cultural justice. In 2003, together with other activists from the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow, Shiran won a High Court of Justice's claim against the Israel Lands Administration regarding fair housing and just land distribution. In 1983, she ran for mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo as part of the Tami list, but received only 1.6 percent of the vote, while the list itself won 1.9 percent of the votes and did not enter the city council. Mizrahi Feminism Shiran is considered one of the "founding mothers" of Mizrahi feminism, and the movement's first public persona. The birthplace of Mizrahi feminism – the feminist movement that deals with the particular intersection of oppressions of Mizrahi women – is considered to be the 10th Feminist Conference that took place at Givat Haviva in 1994. At the time, Mizrahi women in the feminist movement had been fighting for recognition of their issues and their inclusion on the feminist agenda, as well as for representation in the key decision-making organizations and centers of power in the movement. Israeli feminism had been mostly imported from the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, and adopted mostly by the hegemonic group of white Ashkenazi Jewish women in Israel. There was a great deal of resistance to the idea that the issues facing women are not universal, and the Mizrahi women felt unheard and marginalized within the feminist movement that claimed to represent them. At the conference, when it became clear that the agenda and topics would not be adjusted to their needs, several Mizrahi women, including Shiran,