NOGA BEN YISHAY
BEING A WOMAN, WHAT MAKES YOU POWERFUL IN THIS COMMUNITY?
"I think that just throughout history and throughout our lives there's been such a big gap between men and women what men can do and men sometimes are more powerful than women sometimes and sometimes women are more powerful than men because throughout recent years I think women are beginning to stand up for themselves and realizing that you can do anything you want to. It doesn't define you whether you're a woman or a man because I think it's something that you can't control you're born the way you are and you can and, being born the way you are you can identify with being whomever you want to be. Regarding your dreams, your hopes your goals, I don't think being a woman or being a man, in any case, should stop you. I think that the gap between women and men throughout the last couple of years has really worked out, but that's the difference between a woman and a matter of being a woman and a man or being a boy and a girl has really really changed in the way. Now, there are professions where women can pursue their dreams no matter what their professions the profession they want to be."
WHAT ARE SOME PERSONAL EVENTS THAT HAVE IMPACTED HOW YOU FELL ABOUT BEING A WOMAN?
"I think that ever since I was a very little girl because my dad worked at a place where you make planes or make simulators for planes, I've always been flying them. Like when I was small we were in Israel I was like five maybe, and I've really really good memories of you know flipping the plane over and my mom would get sick. She didn't like this. But these are really things that I remember and things that I really liked to do. As I grew older and I was like, throughout all my childhood I'm going to be a pilot when I grow up like I'm going to fly several thousand people. You know why not. That was my dream and then sometimes people would look at me like wait are you sure they look at my dad like 'you need to tell your girl 'no, it's not for her'...'you know it's not what she is meant to do', and that that, that sucked. Then for a while, I was like I'll be fine I won't be a pilot I won't. I'll look into other things you know I'll be more feminine I think this idea of being feminine, being polite. So I feel like fine, I'll be an actress or I'll be something else. I mean I do love acting and I don't think there's any problem with being whom you want to be, that's the thing. I don't think there's any problem with being anything that you want to be regardless of who you are and what you identify with and let people think that you are."
DO YOU HAVE A ROLE MODEL, SOMEONE YOU LOOK UP TO?
"I think that my mom really really did help me through everything. I mean my parents both of my parents, they raised me as like, you do you want to be... you are a girl and that's not something that should change whom you want to be. That's why I think both of my parents and the women that they've chosen to be like yeah, do what you want to do. Love what you love to do."
IF YOU WERE TO BE PORTRAYED IN A PORTRAIT OF YOURSELF, HOW DO YOU SEE IT?
"I think the things that would really stand out to me would be the imperfections. Like I don't know I look at myself looking... "that's not what should be better", "that's not good", and that's not it, "that's the way it is". I've learned to live with that and I've learned to not let that stop me, even if it is, I'm not going to deny anything and I'm really like OK maybe that could be better and maybe you know I would like to have less of this and less of that but it is what it is."
