Rula Daood

Rula Daood (, ) is a Palestinian Israeli activist and co-director of Standing Together.

Biography Daood was born in 1985 in the Palestinian village of Kafr Yasif in northern Israel, and is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. She trained as a speech pathologist and lived in Lod for six years, and lived in Jaffa as of 2024. She says she made a decision to try to build bridges between Israeli Jews and Palestinians during the 2014 Gaza War when standing in line at a bakery in Ashdod. In response to a picture of Palestinian children who had been killed in Gaza in the newspaper Haaretz, She worked as a community organizer within the organization for two years organizing events and protests before being appointed co-director. She said that the Israeli occupation needs to end and that there needs to be freedom and equality to both peoples. After she spoke to students at a school in Lydda about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Gaza, and her experience living as a Palestinian in Israel, the organization filed a complaint with the Ministry of Education. In 2026, Daood and Green co-founded a new Israeli political party A Place for Us All and took a leave of absence from Standing Together to run in the 2026 Israeli election.

In 2022, Daood and Green received the Gallanter Prize from the New Israel Fund. for Standing Together's activity against the legal reform, for promoting Jewish-Arab solidarity and for guaranteeing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.