Erella Shadmi

Erella Shadmi is an Israeli sociologist and peace activist. She previously worked for two decades for the Israel Police.

Career Shadmi was born in Tel Aviv. Whilst at school she attended left-wing demonstrations and became a peace activist. She then studied communications at university. In an interview with Al-Monitor, she criticised the sexual inequalities she experienced and credited two commissioners (Herzl Shafir and Shaul Rosolio) for their respect of women. In 1996, she co-edited a history of the police force. She also resumed her peace activism, joining Women in Black and Ahoti – for Women in Israel. In 2012, Shadmi published Fortified land: Police and policing in Israel, which documents how the police contributes to the formation of Israeli nationhood by enforcing hegemony and targeting minority groups such as anarchists, left-wing demonstrators, poor people and Russians.

Selected works