Shirly Pinto

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Shirly Pinto
שירלי פינטו
Shirly Pinto.jpg
Shirly Pinto, 2017
Faction represented in the Knesset
2021–Yamina
Personal details
Born (1989-03-15) March 15, 1989 (age 32)
Kiryat Bialik, Israel
Websiteshirlypinto.co.il

Shirly Pinto (Hebrew: שירלי פינטו‎; born March 15, 1989) is an Israeli Deaf social-political activist, currently serving as Member of Knesset for Yamina.

Pinto is fluent in Israeli Sign Language as well as Hebrew, and is one of the founders of  [he].[1]

Biography[]

Pinto was born to Deaf parents, and raised in the Krayot. Her mother is Deaf and blind, and part of the Nalaga'at theater group.[2]

Pinto attended the Carmel Zvulun Regional High School in Kibbutz Yagur,[3] electing to study graphic design and social science. She received a complete matriculation diploma, graduating with honors.

Pinto made most of her childhood with her mother's parents, as well as with her signing parents. This way she acquired a full knowledge of two languages, Israeli sign language alongside the Hebrew language, which gave her emotional strength and self esteem between the two worlds. Since her childhood, she has seen the difficulty and lack of linguistic accessibility in her parents, who coped daily with the authorities and the general public. Pinto's life was also a daily struggle because of a lack of awareness in the public. When she grew up, she decided to devote her life to change this reality of Deaf and hard of hearing people.

At the age of 18, despite being exempted from compulsory military service, Pinto enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces. She served in the Israeli Air Force Technical Corps. After the initial two-year service, Pinto continued as a career officer, and in 2009 she received an outstanding medal from the Air Force commander and was recognized by President Shimon Peres for her exceptional service.[4][5]

In 2011 Pinto enrolled for a law degree at the Netanya Academic College, and participated the college's excellence program. During her studies she participated in a delegation to the International Labour Organization at the United Nations in Geneva. In 2013 she worked as a paralegal for Judge Benjamin Arnon in Israel's Central District Court. In 2014 she interned for Member of Knesset Karin Elharar, handling legislation, public appeals and drafting policies to aid people with disabilities.

Since 2016 Pinto has been a lecturer for the studies of Sign Language Interpreting, at Bar-Ilan University.

In 2017 Pinto interned at the law office of Furth, Wilensky, Mizrachi and Knaani.[6]

Public activism[]

Shirley Pinto (standing seventh) is hosted at the Israeli President's House at a special "Leadership and Disability" meeting, in which a research and a survey of the public attitudes towards leadership of people with disabilities were presented, January 2018

In 2014 Pinto joined the "Shema for education and rehabilitation of deaf and hard of hearing children and youth",[7] where she was later employed as an instructor and an informal educational activity coordinator. Later she was appointed as a manager of the regional Gush Dan club. In May 2015, Pinto initiated an Israeli delegation to India, for an assistance and a legal-educational counseling to deaf children and youth in Indore.

In 2016 she established  [he] with other deaf founders. It's goals are to promote the status of Deaf and hard of hearing people who used sign language; to recognize the equality of sign language and spoken languages; and to create an awareness to the need of the Deaf to be accessible and accepted by the general public.

Pinto led the "I sign I am Equal"[8] public campaign for changing the consciousness of the importance of sign language in public, and for promoting legislation of the Israeli Sign Language as a recognized language in Israel. In this campaign, she led a awareness week of the Deaf people,[9][10] under the slogan "I sign, I am whole" (a Hebrew word play). The campaign swept hundreds of thousands, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett joined.[11] Following the campaign, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was the first university in Israel to recognize Israeli Sign Language as an official language for Deaf people in Israel. In March 2017, the university hosted a ceremony in which Pinto presented a certificate of appreciation from the Center for the Deaf Studies to Rivka Carmi, the president of the university, for its actions.[12]

In 2017, Pinto initiated a bill to make public service announcements on the television in sign language, which was led by MK Issawi Frej and MK Eitan Cabel.[13] Later that year, in cooperation with the Ruderman Family Foundation, Pinto arranged a meeting with Academy Award winning actress Marlee Matlin with the community of the Deaf and hard of hearing people in Israel. Over 300 people attended the event, hosted at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.[14][15]

Over the years Pinto has spearheaded public campaigns for better inclusion of Deaf people in society. She had dealt with problems in the education system,[16] the lack of accessibility to health services[17] and lack of adequate public infrastructure.[18] Since 2015 Pinto has worked to strengthen the ties between Israel and the countries of the world, to improve the visibility of the population of Deaf and hard of hearing and the Advancement of Israel, and was chosen to represent Israel at a conference of the World Federation of the Deaf in November 2017 in Budapest in Hungary.[19] During the conference, Pinto learned about a global initiative to prevent the sterilization of Deaf women.[20] Pinto also met Helga Stevens, a Deaf woman and a member of the European Parliament,[21] and told her about the Deaf community in Israel versus the Deaf communities in Europe. At her speech at the Federation, Pinto spoke about the importance of integrating Deaf and hard of hearing people who use both sign language and non-sign language as one whole population.[22] Upon her return to Israel, Pinto was interviewed on Channel 20 about it.

In the beginning of October 2017, Pinto turned to welfare minister Haim Katz and asked him that during the intermediate days of Sukkot and Passover, the telephone relay service should be operated by the Institute for the Advancement of the Deaf. In the beginning of December 2017, Katz replied Pinto that her request had been received, and that the service would be operated on the basis of a shortened working day.

On December 5, 2017, Pinto told the Knesset Science and Technology Committee that Deaf and hard of hearing customers do not hear their names on the announcement after ordering self-service meals, and suggested that the business would lend them a vibrating sign which would be drawn when their order was ready.[23]

On July 12, 2021 Pinto made her first speech at the Knesset plenum.[24][25]

Personal life[]

Pinto lives in Ramat Gan, and is married to Michael Kadosh, a player in the Israeli Futsal national team and an employee as an engineer in telecommunications in Israel. They have one son.[2]

See also[]

  • Deaf Culture

References[]

  1. ^ Wootliff, Raoul (January 8, 2019). "New Right announces deaf rights activist as first-ever deaf Knesset candidate". The Times of Israel. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Shirley Pinto (December 22, 2019). "How to make Hanukkah accessible to a Deaf child". Facebook (in Hebrew). Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "Beit Hinuch Carmel Zvulun, Kibbutz Yagur". carmel.tik-tak.net (in Hebrew). Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  4. ^ Shirley Pinto (August 12, 2019). "Pictured: At the President's Award of Merit, Independence Day 2009". Facebook (in Hebrew). Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  5. ^ Haggai Huberman (February 14, 2020). "הקול של בעלי המוגבלויות" [The voice of the disabled people] (in Hebrew). מצב הרוח. pp. 26–27. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  6. ^ "FWMK". fwmk-law.co.il. Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  7. ^ "Shema". shema.org.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  8. ^ I sign, I am Equal on Facebook
  9. ^ Deaf People Awareness Week 2016 on YouTube, September 18, 2016
  10. ^ Shirley Pinto (September 20, 2016). "לדעת לבד מתי מגיע תורי" [To know alone when my turn comes]. Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  11. ^ "Bennett: "I sign, I am whole"". Twitter (in Hebrew). September 20, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  12. ^ Shirley Pinto (March 28, 2017). "מדרום תגיע הבשורה" [From the south the annunciation would come]. Facebook (in Hebrew). Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  13. ^ Economic Committee (July 25, 2016). "בקרוב: גם בפרסומות בטלוויזיה יופיעו כתוביות לטובת לקויי שמיעה" [Coming soon: TV commercials will also have subtitles for hearing impaired]. Knesset (in Hebrew). Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  14. ^ Jerusalem Post staff (May 28, 2017). "Oscar winner Marlee Matlin to receive prestigious award in Israel". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  15. ^ Yaakov Schwartz (June 22, 2017). "Actress Marlee Matlin teaches tolerance – and how to sign 'Tel Aviv' – during Israel tour". The Times of Israel. Retrieved February 19, 2020. She was further scheduled to meet with over 300 people from Israel’s Deaf community.
  16. ^ Shirley Pinto (September 6, 2017). "שפת הסימנים: הדרך שלנו ללמוד" [Sign Language: Our way to study]. Israel Hayom (in Hebrew). Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  17. ^ Revital Blumenfeld (September 19, 2017). ""כאילו אנחנו אוויר": מאות אלפי חירשים לא זוכים למתורגמן בטיפול הרפואי" ["As we are an air": Hundreds of thousands of Deaf people do not receive an interpreter in the medical treatment]. Walla! (in Hebrew). Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  18. ^ Aviv Lavi (September 25, 2017). "שנת הלימודים החלה – אולם כיתות עבור ילדים כבדי שמיעה טרם הונגשו" [The school year has begun – however, classes for hard of hearing children has not yet been accessed]. Army Radio (in Hebrew). Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  19. ^ Shirly Pinto (November 4, 2017). "WFD Conference 2017". Facebook. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  20. ^ Shirly Pinto (November 9, 2017). "מסתבר שהגענו למציאות שניתן לעקר נשים חירשות ללא הסכמתן וידיעתן" [It turns out that we have reached a reality that deaf women can be sterilized without their consent and knowledge]. Facebook. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  21. ^ ECR Group (November 10, 2017). "So proud of our Flemish member Helga Stevens MEP for being included in POLITICO Europe's 2017 Women Shaping Brussels list". Facebook. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  22. ^ Shirly Pinto (November 11, 2017). "הגיע הזמן לאחד בין חירשים וכבדי שמיעה דוברי שפת הסימנים ולא דוברי שפת הסימנים, כאוכלוסייה אחת שלמה" [It is the time to unite the Deaf and the hard of hearing who speak sign language and those who do not sign, as a whole population]. Facebook. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  23. ^ The fourth session of the 20th Knesset (December 5, 2017). "פרוטוקול מס' 146 מישיבת ועדת המדע והטכנולוגיה" [Protocol No. 146 of the meeting of the Science and Technology Committee]. Knesset. pp. 35–36. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  24. ^ Naftali Bennett (July 13, 2021). "MK Shirley Pinto Kadosh made history with the first-ever speech in sign language in the Knesset". Facebook. with Hebrew and English subtitles. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  25. ^ Moti Karpel (July 15, 2021). "אזרחי ישראל זכו השבוע לרגע אחד של חסד מנבחרי הציבור שלהם" [This week, the citizens of Israel received one moment of grace from their elected officials]. Facebook (in Hebrew). Retrieved July 16, 2021.

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