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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' from Israel is founding member of the [[:Category:Intactivism organization|intactivism organization]] [[KAHAL]].
Tamir comes from a religious Jewish family, but calls himself a "cultural Jew". She remembers how she experienced the first [[Brit Milah|Brit]] when she was about 14 years old. The child's mother was standing outside crying during the ceremony, and at that moment Tamar Tamir decided that if she would ever have a son, she would not circumcise him. When she gave birth to her son in 2001, she followed her resolution.<ref name="Forward2018">{{REFnews
|url=https://forward.com/news/israel/391496/circumcision-rates-are-slipping-even-in-israel/
|title=Circumcision Rates Are Slipping — Even In Israel
|date=2020-08-22
|accessdate=2020-05-13
}}</ref> on the number of [[intact ]] boys in Israel when it was assumed that quantitative arguments had to be made in the [[Circumcision Debate]].
In 2020 she spoke in a video message on [[WWDOGA]]:
What often leads them to do this is heavy pressure from their family members and other people around them alongside lack of information. The correct and science-based information about this procedure is hidden, not collected and not published. Instead, false data is presented in official publications, including the false “facts” that circumcision is good for the baby’s health or that it is necessary for the baby to be considered Jewish, which are not correct.
Circumcision is presented as an easy procedure that involves no, or very insignificant [[pain]], no [[Risks and complications| risks ]] and no disadvantages. People are taught from young age that the [[foreskin]] is unclean. Statistics and objective information about circumcisions that were poorly performed are not collected, advertised or investigated.
In Israel, in most cases, circumcisions are performed by [[mohel| MOHALIM]], who are traditional circumcisers, and are religious people, not doctors. They don’t have any medical education and training, are not committed to any hygienic standards, cannot professionally diagnose the baby’s condition and are not allowed to use effective pain relief with local anesthesia.