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Nude Viki Knafo enrages single mothers, confuses social activists
By Ruth Sinai
September 15, 2004
Viki Knafo's decision to pose nude for an Israeli porn site shocked and
confused individuals and social activists who had joined her struggle for
single mothers last summer.
Knafo's protest march from Mizpe Ramon to Jerusalem aroused massive sympathy
throughout the country and hundreds joined her.
"She didn't even know which way was north," said Yoel Maharshak of the Kibbutz
Movement, who joined Knafo's Jerusalem-bound march. Maharshak arranged for
Knafo's accommodations along the way and helped set up her protest camp. "I
feel pain and shame for her," he said.
Rabbi Gilad Kariv of the Center for Jewish Pluralism, who helped with funds and
moral support, said, "I don't justify or understand her. Perhaps we, the social
organizations, abandoned her too soon."
Ilana Azulay of Arad, who marched with her disabled son to Jerusalem following
Knafo, was in shock. "We cannot understand it, none of us," she said. "If
you're poor or hungry you can clean houses, sweep streets, but not this."
Azulay believes Knafo has damaged the cause of single mothers. "Single mothers
are already accused of being idle. With Knafo in a porn site they'll really
have what to say."
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