Israeli women

High Court challenges law excluding women from Israel's Chief Rabbinate elections

The court issued an order requiring the respondents to explain why a 2024 law should not be interpreted to require the rabbis to also appoint women as representatives in the electoral assembly.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Jewish worshippers pray for forgiveness during Selichot prayers at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron, northern Israel, on September 3, 2026, ahead of the Jewish New Year.
Cosmetic surgery tools are seen surrounding a face mask (illustrative)

One in five Israeli women who get cosmetic procedures show signs of addiction, study finds

Hebrew University researchers found low body esteem and problematic social media use were the strongest risk factors. "We wanted to understand the psychological factors," they told the Post.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Col. G, set to become the Israeli Air Force's first female brigadier-general, is seen in this undated image released by the IDF on July 14, 2026

In Air Force first, IDF promotes woman to brigadier-general, appoints her Washington attaché

Col. 'G.,' whose full identity remains classified, commanded the Uvda Air Force base since May 2024 and had already broken new ground as the first female base chief in air force history.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Hagit Pe’er (second from the right) during the World Na'amat visit to the Gaza Envelope.

Deep in the trenches of women’s rights, Na’amat fights the good fight

President of World Na’amat Hagit Pe’er reflects on the efforts to keep women in the public sphere amidst the hostile political reality.

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN, IN COOPERATION WITH NA’AMAT

Israel has capable female leaders, it should use them - opinion

there is no need to wait for “tomorrow’s leadership.” These female leaders are here now, and they are talented, experienced, and valuable.

MARCH 5, 2024ByMORAN ZER KATZENSTEIN
Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

Helping women return to the job market during the war - opinion

The war exacerbates the existing gender inequalities. Reconstruction of employment conditions is required to fill the inconceivable gap for women and professionals.

FEBRUARY 26, 2024ByRIVKA NEUMANN
GROUP NINETEEN Negev office.

Israeli women-owned start-ups struggle to survive under shadow of war with Hezbollah

Northern Israel’s ‘Galiladies’ program aims to keep businesses afloat as citizens displaced by the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah wait to return home.

FEBRUARY 5, 2024ByAARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE
Erel Margalit and participants in the Galiladies startup program join for a group photo at the Galiladies' Bazaar event in the Margalit Startup City Tel Aviv headquarters, Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 30, 2024.

A letter to the kidnapped daughters of Israel - opinion

Daughters of Israel should be safe in Israel.

JANUARY 24, 2024ByLAUREN GUMPORT
A PHOTO OF 23-year-old hostage Romi Gonen, on one of the billboards in London that carry the question: ‘Where is your daughter sleeping tonight?’ The organizers vow ‘to publish images of our young women on billboards around the world until everyone calls for the release of all the hostages.’

Why are feminists silent on Hamas's use of rape as a weapon of war? - opinion

Silence is violence, and Israeli women have suffered enough. We must all speak now.

JANUARY 19, 2024ByCARLY PILDIS
Demonstrators hold signs against the international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, in November.

Under the shadow of war: Women's rights in Israel sacrificed for political benefit

Gender inequality in Israel has deepened as a result of an increase in violence in 2023, the current war, and also the removal of women from decision-making positions in the government and the army.

JANUARY 17, 2024ByKEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
ACTIVISTS PROTEST against recent cases of violence against women at Habima Square in Tel Aviv last week.

IOF releases report on violence against Israeli women in 2023

A third of all femicide cases in Israel in 2023 occurred after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

JANUARY 1, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

Human rights groups’ hypocrisy on Hamas rape - opinion

Respect has been forfeited from self-described human rights advocates when they failed to defend the human right of Jewish women to not be raped.

DECEMBER 25, 2023ByRAFAEL MEDOFF
A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

UN Women finally condemns Hamas attacks, sexual violence on October 7

Israeli FM Eli Cohen called on UN Women executive director Sima Bahaus to resign.

DECEMBER 2, 2023BySAM HALPERN
Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, speaks during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine with a focus on women, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., April 11, 2022.

WIZO Battered Women’s Shelter celebrates 40th anniversary

WIZO and government officials, formerly sheltered women and children speak. 200,000 women and 500,000 child domestic violence victims annually.

JUNE 12, 2023ByBEN RAAB
Workers in the daycare educational system protest in Tel Aviv, demanding better working conditions. October 3, 2021