Orit Sulitzeanu

Orit Sulitzeanu

Orit Sulitzeanu has been the Executive Director of The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) since 2013. ARCCI is the leading NGO in Israel working for the eradication of sexual violence. Sulitzeanu holds an MA in Nonprofit Management (Cum Laude) and an MA in Communications (Cum Laude), both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Before joining the ARCCI, she served as Head of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she also chaired the Gender Equality Committee. Prior to this, she was the Spokesperson for the Israel Women’s` Network (IWN), Israel’s leading women advocacy group, for seven years.

Under her leadership the ARCCI has received the Emil Grunzweig award for Human Rights in 2015 and the Minister’s Award for Social Equality in 2017. In February 2018, Sulitzeanu was awarded the Jerusalem WIZO Award for Groundbreaking Woman. In April 2018 she was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present the ARCCI cutting edge programs on eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace in a conference about sexual harassment in the UN. In 2019, she was nominated as a representative of all women NGOs to serve on a governmental committee to establish a national program against sexual harassment in Israel.

Orit appears extensively at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, she is a sought-after media interviewee and commentator, and has published many op-eds and public statements on sexual harassment related issues. She is married to Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu, mother of three, and lives in Tel-Aviv.