at a special "Leadership and Disability" meeting, in which research and a survey of the public attitudes towards the leadership of people with disabilities were presented, January 2018 In 2014 Pinto joined the "Shema for Education and Rehabilitation of Deaf and hard-of-hearing Children and Youth", where she was later employed as an instructor and an
informal educational activity coordinator. Later she was appointed as a manager of the regional
Gush Dan club. In May 2015, Pinto initiated an Israeli delegation to
India, for assistance and legal-educational counselling to deaf children and youth in
Indore. In 2016 she established with other deaf founders. Its goals are to promote the status of Deaf and hard-of-hearing people who use
sign language; to recognize the equality of sign language and spoken languages; and to create an awareness of the need for the Deaf to be accessible and accepted by the general public. Pinto led the "I sign I am Equal" public campaign for changing the consciousness of the importance of sign language in public, and for promoting legislation of the Israeli Sign Language as a recognized language in Israel. In this campaign, she led an awareness week of the Deaf people, under the slogan "I sign, I am whole" (a Hebrew word play). The campaign swept hundreds of thousands, and
Education Minister Naftali Bennett joined. Following the campaign,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was the first university in Israel to recognize Israeli Sign Language as an official language for Deaf people in Israel. In March 2017, the university hosted a ceremony in which Pinto presented a certificate of appreciation from the Center for the Deaf Studies to
Rivka Carmi, the president of the university, for its actions. In 2017, Pinto initiated a bill to make
public service announcements on the television in sign language, which was led by MK
Issawi Frej and MK
Eitan Cabel. Later that year, in cooperation with the
Ruderman Family Foundation, Pinto arranged a meeting with
Academy Award winning actress
Marlee Matlin with the community of the Deaf and hard of hearing people in Israel. Over 300 people attended the event, hosted at the
Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Over the years Pinto has spearheaded public campaigns for better inclusion of Deaf people in society. She had dealt with problems in the education system, the lack of accessibility to health services and lack of adequate public infrastructure. Since 2015 Pinto has worked to strengthen the ties between Israel and the countries of the world, to improve the visibility of the population of Deaf and hard of hearing and the Advancement of Israel, and was chosen to represent Israel at a conference of the
World Federation of the Deaf in November 2017 in
Budapest in
Hungary. During the conference, Pinto learned about a global initiative to prevent the sterilization of Deaf women. Pinto also met
Helga Stevens, a Deaf woman and a member of the European Parliament, and told her about the Deaf community in Israel versus the Deaf communities in Europe. At her speech at the Federation, Pinto spoke about the importance of integrating Deaf and hard-of-hearing people who use both sign language and non-sign language as one whole population. Upon her return to Israel, Pinto was interviewed on
Channel 20 about it. At the beginning of October 2017, Pinto turned to the welfare minister
Haim Katz and asked him that during the intermediate days of Sukkot and Passover, the telephone relay service should be operated by the Institute for the Advancement of the Deaf. At the beginning of December 2017, Katz replied to Pinto that her request had been received and that the service would be operated on the basis of a shortened working day. On 5 December 2017, Pinto told the Knesset Science and Technology Committee that Deaf and hard-of-hearing customers do not hear their names on the announcement after ordering self-service meals, and suggested that the business would lend them a vibrating sign which would be drawn when their order was ready. On 3 January 2018, Pinto, a State Control Committee in the Knesset headed by Shelly Yachimovich, said that 45 hours of translation per year is not enough for Deaf Holocaust survivors, who need to get to hospitals and doctors younger.[18] Pinto was a candidate for the municipal elections in
Ramat Gan.
Interviews to promote the integration of the Deaf and hard of hearing Pinto interviewed[19][20] the teaching of Deaf students and hearing-impaired individual schools combined and combined classroom, with no individual combined acoustic accessibility,[21] and combined classroom teachers acquire knowledge of Israeli sign language consisting of only 36 hours. Pinto also wrote a column about it in
Israel Today.[22] At the opening of the Awareness Week for the Deaf, on 10 September 2017, she spoke of her work as a single Deaf practitioner throughout the country in a law firm, of Deaf lawyers who became self-employed due to their lack of integration into law firms, and of the need for accessibility in employment and health services.[23] Following the exposure of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein, Pinto said that the Deaf woman's difficulty in dealing with sexual harassment is double, both as a woman and as a Deaf woman, who is forced to communicate with the professional staff on the subject. Pinto's conclusion was that a sign language control team was needed, preferably for Deaf professionals.[24] On 12 July 2021, Pinto made her first speech at the
Knesset plenum. Pinto announced on 3 August 2022 that she would not join Zionist Spirit (a merger of
Yamina and
Derekh Eretz) ahead of the
2022 Israeli legislative election. She had joined
National Unity's electoral list on 22 August. == Personal life ==