(Ha'aretz) Ayelett Shani - Maha Daka, 50, is director of the employment bureau in Israeli Arab city of Taibeh. Since she took over, about 70% of the women in Taibeh who were living on guaranteed income support have freed themselves of the need to receive welfare allowances, and most now work. Daka explains, "Today's young women are more highly developed socially. They want a career and higher education; they don't want to stay at home....Women who for years were as good as paralyzed - they did nothing...today they come and say, 'I want to work. I dream of studying something.'" How did Daka get to be a manager? "I was born into a family of 11 souls. My father didn't work, my mother didn't work, we lived in poverty....I dreamed of university. No money. For six years I worked all kinds of jobs, whatever there was, and then I went to college. Those studies saved my life."
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