Women of israel

October 7 shattered their lives. Now, the women of Kibbutz Erez rebuild.

After October 7, the women of Kibbutz Erez faced loss, trauma and displacement. Atufot, a center they built together, is helping women heal, reconnect and rebuild their community.

From left - Netta Inbar, Dr. Shimrit Yichye, Shachar Naim and Yuval Arem
Naftali Bennet with the new female candidates.

Naftali Bennett adds four female candidates to B’Yachad slate, bringing total women on list to 17

People walk near office towers at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020

Natural Intelligence marketing firm wins Dun award for advancing women in Israeli high-tech sector

In her novel ‘Frecha Academait,’ Naomi Shloush confronts the stigmas around the derogatory term ‘frecha’ used for women of Mizrahi heritage.

Naomi Shloush's 'Academic bimbo' confronts Mizrahi identity in modern Israel


Should gender equality in gov’t parties be required by law?

IDI representatives call for policy allowing extra funding for parties making efforts to uphold gender equality

The Knesset's Committee for the Advancement of Women and Gender Equality discusses the lack of representation of women in numerous political parties.

Ron Huldai promises half of his party's MKs will be women

University of Washington professor will be on his list

From left clockwise: Keren Tal, Karine Nahon, Einav Kabla and Adi Tsabari.

I resisted the Bechdel test for Torah study, then tried it.

The problem is not a failure to include existing female voices in the Jewish canon but the fact that these voices don’t yet exist.

Women study torah Talmud 248.88 AJ

Lack of help in household chores drives women to infidelity, study finds

Rather than indicating a somewhat petty excuse for infidelity, the findings actually reflect growing sense of dissatisfaction in many marriages.

A woman loads laundry into the washing machine at a laundromat in Cambridge, Massachusetts July 8, 2009.

Sewing circle 'Chicks with Sticks' knit their mitzvahs

How sewing bee Chicks with Sticks memorialized their friend Phyllis Goldman.

The Chicks with Sticks of Gush Etzion proudly display the blankets they made for Seeach Sod

Ehud Olmert to 'Post': Women need to take on leadership roles in Israel

A party that wants to change the nature of public discourse and present an attractive, different, hopeful and chance-creating alternative must change its composition.

WOMEN MKS – it’s past time for them to take on leadership roles.

Secular women are the most stressed by coronavirus, study finds

In spite of the high morbidity in the ultra-Orthodox sector, respondents from this group reported the least stress.

From left to right: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Dr. Tehila Kalagy, Prof. Orna Braun-Lewensohn and Dr. Sarah Abu-Kaf.

Israel ranked 31st in gender equality out of 100 countries

Israel's highest score was for Israeli women's access to education and its lowest was given for female-positive legislation.

A woman walks next to a light rail sign

Third age women dance in Suzanne Dellal Center to bring back culture

The women wore t-shirts on which it was written both their name and their age on the front, and the slogan "Give us back the culture!" on the back.

Outdoor performance of the Vertigo Dance Company by the Suzanne Dellal Centre on June 30.

High Court questions renovation delays in Western Wall egalitarian section

‘Saddened by the significant delays in dealing with making the southern [prayer] section of the Western Wall fitting for prayer’

The damaged prayer platform of the Western Wall egalitarian prayer section which has been shut for nearly two years due to delays in repair work to the stones of the wall and now to the platform itself.