Re'ut Mor
Israeli media consultant and activist; Hebrew-language spokeswoman for Hadash and the Joint List in the 2015 election campaign and a passenger on the 2012 Estelle Gaza flotilla
| Re'ut Mor
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| Nationality | Israeli |
| Occupation | Independent media consultant; political spokeswoman; activist |
| Known for | Hebrew-language spokeswoman for Hadash and the Joint List (2015 election campaign); passenger on the Estelle Gaza-bound ship (October 2012); questioned by the Shin Bet in June 2015 |
Re'ut Mor (also spelled Reut Mor; Hebrew: רעות מור) is an Israeli independent media consultant and activist. She was the Hebrew-language spokeswoman for the party Hadash and for the Joint List during the 2015 Knesset election campaign,[1][2] and in October 2012 she sailed on the Estelle, a ship that tried to reach Gaza and was intercepted by the Israeli Navy.[3] In June 2015 the Shin Bet detained and questioned her, and the episode was later cited by Haaretz in its report on the monitoring of boycott campaigners by Israeli intelligence.[4]
Political and media work
Mor describes herself as an independent media consultant.[5] Haaretz described her in June 2015 as a media consultant to the Joint List who had served as spokeswoman for Hadash during the Joint List's campaign.[2]
In February 2015 The Jerusalem Post quoted her as the Hebrew-language spokeswoman of the Joint List and Hadash. She told the paper that the Joint List's mostly Arab candidates had decided from the start to speak in a new way to all sectors of society, that Hadash alone had attracted fewer than 10,000 Jewish votes at the previous election, and that the aim in 2015 was at least to keep those voters.[1]
The Estelle, October 2012
In October 2012 Mor was one of three Israelis aboard the Estelle, a Swedish-owned, Finnish-flagged schooner carrying some 30 passengers and crew that set out to break the blockade of Gaza. The Israeli Navy intercepted the ship on 20 October 2012 and took it to Ashdod.[3] The Times of Israel reported that Mor, Yonatan Shapira and Alik Elhanan were arrested and accused of incitement and of violating Israel's disengagement from Gaza, and that on 22 October 2012 a Beersheba District Court judge, Yael Raz Levy, ordered them moved to house arrest until midnight the following day.[3] Haaretz said the ship set out from Sweden and was stopped by the IDF before it reached Gaza.[2] The voyage came two years after the Gaza flotilla raid of May 2010.
Questioning by the Shin Bet, June 2015
Haaretz reported on 24 June 2015 that the Shin Bet had detained Mor on her return from a private trip to Greece, apparently to gather information on Israelis planning to join a new Gaza-bound flotilla, and that she had been asked about her views on Zionism, the IDF and the boycott movement.[2]
In her own account, published the next day in +972 Magazine, Mor said she was held for more than an hour on arrival and handed a summons to a police station in Tel Aviv that carried only a name, "Rona". She attended with her lawyer, Anu Lusky of the Michael Sfard law office. She said the questions covered what she had done in Greece, whether she was in contact with activists on the current flotilla, her thoughts on Zionism, her army service, the date Combatants for Peace was founded, whether she still worked for the Joint List and who her media clients were. She said she declined to discuss her political views in a setting she had been forced into, and described the episode as "political persecution".[5]
In August 2015 Haaretz reported that Israeli Military Intelligence monitors dozens of overseas groups affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement through its Delegitimization Department, and that the IDF said it did not collect information on Israeli citizens, a task that falls to the Shin Bet. The report said activists on the left had previously been contacted by a Shin Bet officer who calls herself "Rona", and cited Mor as having said in June 2015 that she was questioned by "Rona" after returning from abroad about a flotilla, the boycott movement, the IDF and Zionism.[4]
See also
- Shin Bet
- Delegitimization Department
- Joint List
- Gaza flotilla raid
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ariel Ben Solomon, 'Nonpartisan' campaign launched to increase Israeli-Arab voter turnout The Jerusalem Post, 23 February 2015, accessed 10 November 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Haaretz (Hebrew edition), שב"כ תחקר פעילת שמאל בשובה מחו"ל כדי לאסוף מידע על המשט לעזה (The Shin Bet questioned a left-wing activist on her return from abroad to gather information on the Gaza flotilla), 24 June 2015, accessed 10 November 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michal Shmulovich, Gaza-bound Israeli activists released from custody and placed under house arrest The Times of Israel, 22 October 2012, accessed 10 November 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gili Cohen, Israel's Military Intelligence Monitoring Dozens of BDS Groups Around the World Haaretz, 18 August 2015, archived at archive.ph/pIjXP, accessed 9 November 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Reut Mor, How I ended up being questioned by the Shin Bet +972 Magazine, 25 June 2015, accessed 10 November 2026.