Empowering women

World Emunah: The women who are holding Israel together

Resilience not as an abstract Israeli virtue, but a daily labor performed overwhelmingly by women whose contributions often remain out of frame.

Frieda Ross, President of World Emunah
A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Women of the Wall call on Katz to include women in national Remembrance Day ceremony

L'Oréal's Program for Advancing Girls in Science enters its third year

Science needs women: L’Oréal Israel’s girls-in-STEM program enters third year

 An Israeli women places her vote in a ballot box (illustrative)

It is time for women to run the Israeli government - opinion


Hanukka retreat in Jerusalem empowers widows and their children

"Hanukka is the happiest and the saddest holiday for these children."

Rabbi Amram Blau, director of the Chessed Menachem Mendel program of Colel Chabad lights candles with some of the younger participants in the annual retreat for widows and their children

‘Women in key positions is the way to bring peace’ says Gamliel

Social Equality Minister Gamliel addresses counterparts from Arab countries.

Gila Gamliel

Israeli minister discusses ‘solidarity in fighting terrorism’ in Cairo

“We need to act together to eradicate terrorism everywhere and anywhere.”

Gila Gamliel

Three Ladies, Three Lattes: Me too

Three Ladies, Three Lattes looks at percolating issues in Israel’s complicated social and religious fabric. Secular Pam, modern Orthodox Tzippi and haredi Danit answer your questions.

A modern take on how to view women in the Bible

Saudi women riled by robot with no hijab and more rights than they have

"It hit a sore spot that a robot has citizenship and my daughter doesn't."

A Saudi woman swings at a park in Jeddah

Mystic woman: Melanie Landau celebrates the divine and empowers others

She and her husband initially came to Israel 20 years ago to learn Torah together.

A woman’s circle at the Red Tent Retreat.

Jordan scraps 'marry your rapist' law

No girl should be "presented as a gift" to her rapist, says a Jordan Parliamentarian.

Jordanian girls wave the flag of Jordan

Pakistani council orders 'revenge rape' of 16-year-old girl

The rape was ordered as revenge for the girl's brother's alleged sexual assault.

Pakistani women work in a field outside the village of Multan in south Punjab province

How does Tel Aviv's hi-tech industry rank in terms of gender equality?

For the first time, Tel Aviv ranked among the top 50 cities in the annual Dell Women Entrepreneurship Cities index, released on Monday.

A woman walks near high-rise buildings in the hi-tech business area of Tel Aviv

Unemployment among women in Jordan increasing

Worrying Jordanian women are increasingly employed refugees, discrimination against women, and culturally-embedded gender inequality.

Jordanian woman at the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development