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August 25, 2025, 12:47 pm
Horrifying testimonies seek to lift shroud of silence around ritual sex abuse claims
Survivors tell Knesset lawmakers of organized assaults on children by those claiming mantle of religion, alleging longstanding phenomenon made worse by official indifference
By Ariela Karmel
Classmates and teachers of Druze children killed in a deadly missile attack at a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, visit the site, August 2, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
April 6, 2025, 11:46 pm
Over 23,000 children and youth physically or mentally damaged by war – report
Israel Council for the Child unveils extent of loss, against backdrop of increased family violence, sexual abuse, suicide attempts by children aged 9 and younger
By Sue Surkes
Members of Or Tamid, an advocacy group in Frankfurt for survivors of sexual abuse, from left to right, Haleli Shomer Shalom, Roglit Ishay, Daniela Shemer and Niels Gerhardt. (Courtesy Or Tamid via JTA)
March 29, 2025, 10:27 am
Frankfurt Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure
Unprecedented third-party hotline will protect 400 employees of local institutions, after advocacy by activist group; national Jewish group may also set up a wider system
By Toby Axelrod
Bereaved families from the October 7 massacres and right-wing activists protest against a hearing in the High Court of Justice over a petition against the conditions of Hamas terrorists and suspects in the Sde Teiman detention facility, where severe allegations of abuses and torture have been made, August 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 7, 2024, 5:24 pm
Right-wing protesters disrupt High Court hearing over Sde Teiman detention center
Chief justice says legal proceedings cannot be interrupted; state insists ‘core principles’ of law upheld at facility, where severe abuse of Palestinian detainees has been alleged
By Jeremy Sharon
Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
June 23, 2024, 11:06 pm
State ordered to report on conditions at terror suspect detention facility in the Negev
High Court decision comes in response to petitions from several human rights groups demanding Sde Teiman be shut down over alleged abuse; state to provide response by June 30
By Jeremy Sharon and Emanuel Fabian
Palestinian security prisoner Omar Atshan hugs his mother after being released from an Israeli prison, in Ramallah on November 26, 2023. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
March 4, 2024, 10:55 am
UNRWA said to accuse Israel of abusing Gazan detainees
UN agency, whose employees are accused of taking part in October 7 onslaught, reportedly alleges suspects ‘beaten, stripped, robbed, blindfolded, sexually abused’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A protest against violence against women in Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
November 3, 2023, 11:32 am
Women in abusive homes fear for their safety as war leads to relaxed gun licensing
175,000 firearm license applications filed since Oct. 7 as Ben Gvir eases restrictions; forum calls for those with domestic violence complaints against them to be ineligible
By Shira Silkoff
A photo of Palestinians bound and stripped after being apprehended by IDF soldiers and settlers in the central West Bank village of Wadi al-Seeq on October 12, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 20, 2023, 2:14 am
IDF, settlers allegedly bind, strip, beat, burn, urinate on 3 Palestinians in W. Bank
Palestinian accuses suspects of attempted sodomy in attack days after Hamas onslaught; Israeli activists say they were also victimized; IDF boots commanding officer, launches probe
By Jacob Magid
Fay Sukenik protest near the home of Meir Porush on Aug. 31, 2023 in Jerusalem, Israel over the cabinet minister's alleged assitance to a sex offender. Her sign reads: 'When God's name is desecrated by a rabbi, he is not worthy of respect.' (Courtesy of Sukenik)
August 31, 2023, 11:59 pm
Dozens of Haredi women protest politician’s alleged help for sex offender
Rally outside cabinet minister Meir Porush’s home comes over reports he tried to help Eliezer Berland enter Ukraine
By Canaan Lidor
Activists protest to raise awareness of sexual violence against Ukrainian women and children in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on April 20, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 4, 2023, 11:13 am
Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven
A harrowing examination reveals much abuse sliding under the authorities’ radar — or being willfully ignored — while the perpetrators remain free to commit further crimes
By Inna Lazareva
Journalists take images of the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
September 3, 2022, 4:27 am
In novel ‘Cyclorama,’ production of ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ conceals a cycle of abuse
In Forward journalist Adam Langer’s new book, a slippery high school drama teacher plays elaborate cat-and-mouse games with his unsuspecting young actors
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative photo (iStock)
August 1, 2022, 8:19 am
Nine staff indicted over abuse of residents at care center for special needs
Workers accused of abusing those under their care at Kfar Bnei Zion site, and preventing another employee from reporting incidents
By ToI Staff
Workers clean an area at Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)
February 2, 2022, 5:28 pm
Report reveals string of labor rights abuses at Dubai’s Expo 2020
London-based group Equidem says workers were forced to pay illegal recruitment fees to get jobs, face racial discrimination and routine threats of deportation and violence
By Isabel Debre
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