ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on BilhaGivon as an ecofeminist figure in Israel. Through the process of mediating between the Ramat Hovav industrial site and the Ministry of the Environment, she founded the Sustainable Development for the Negev Organization in 1998, and she has since moderated eleven public forums with major industries. As a woman, Givon is not connected to nature because of an essential identity that women and nature hold in common. Rather, this woman-–nature connection is constituted through mediation. It is dialectical, exemplifying the notion of the “third party” that Jean-Paul Sartre articulates in his Critique of Dialectical Reason.
