As a journalist and activist during the First Intifada, Roni Ben Efrat reported on human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She was one of the founding members of the Israeli human rights group, Women in Black, in 1987. She wrote for a Hebrew biweekly, Derech-Hanitzatz, which was shut down under administrative law during the uprising. Roni spent 9 months in jail for her involvement with the publication.