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Women from a broad spectrum of Israeli society gather for Kumi's first conference at Sapir College, near Sderot, in southern Israel, on February 26, 2025. (Noa Sharvit)
May 17, 2025, 7:59 am
In Western Negev, budding female entrepreneurs rebuild their communities, and themselves
Over 300 women join Kumi, started by Australian-born Israeli, to gain confidence, skills, seed funding, and more as they pursue projects aimed at meeting often-overlooked needs
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Chairwomen and female CEOs of tech and biomed companies ring the opening ball at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in celebration of International Women's Day, March 7, 2024. (Courtesy)
March 6, 2025, 8:20 pm
Only one-tenth of Israeli startups are headed by female CEOs as gender gap persists
Women hold around 17% of senior management positions in private tech firms; overall share of women in Israeli tech workforce stagnates, study by Israel Innovation Authority shows
By Sharon Wrobel
The elections of Israel's new chief rabbis in Jerusalem, September 29, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
December 11, 2024, 7:34 pm
Feminist groups decry law setting quota for women in assembly that elects chief rabbis
Billed as an effort to increase female representation, measure actually serves to disenfranchise female Torah scholars, say critics
By Sam Sokol
NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman holds the trophy during NWSL Cup Final game between Kansas City Current and Portland Thorns FC at Audi Field on October 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images)
September 11, 2023, 2:23 am
US Women’s Soccer League head Jessica Berman draws on her Judaism to level the field
As she works to grow her sport, the Jewish day school alum from Brooklyn is racking up victories in her battle for unity and equality — starting with equal pay for female players
By jacob gurvis
A group photo of the 37th Government of Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, December 29, 2022. (Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office)
June 30, 2023, 11:05 pm
Israel plummets 23 spots in gender equality index to 83rd in the world
Israel has closed only 70.1% of gender gap, according to World Economic Forum report; current government criticized for lack of female representation, with only 6 cabinet ministers
By ToI Staff
Israeli women dressed as characters from 'The Handmaid's Tale' television show protest against disadvantages for women in the state rabbinical courts and against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court, May 4, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 29, 2023, 9:25 am
Israel ranked lowest of all OECD countries in gender equality index
Jewish state scores worse than Turkey, and over twice as bad as UK and France; director of government group to advance women’s rights urges thorough examination by relevant bodies
By ToI Staff
Eliyana Hayut. (Youtube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 13, 2023, 5:48 pm
Teen girl’s song nixed from municipal show over ultra-Orthodox man in audience
Merom HaGalil Regional Council education chief apologizes for snap decision to drop 13-year-old from event, says he was only trying to protect her from offense if people walked out
By ToI Staff
File: Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a concert featuring Haredi singer Motti Steinmetz, in a show where men and women in the audience sat separately, in the northern Israeli city of Afula on August 14, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
November 20, 2022, 12:44 pm
Orthodox parties demand legalization of gender-segregated public events
Outgoing Prime Minister Lapid likens policy to Iran’s, drawing outrage amid renewed debate over whether separate seating is inherently discriminatory
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks from a military base in the West Bank, on May 11, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 1, 2022, 9:36 pm
Kohavi denounces barring of female officer from leading Western Wall ceremony
Military chief calls incident a ‘violation of our values,’ says commanders can’t let decisions be influenced by ‘parties outside the chain of command’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Father holding his baby girl at home. (Wavebreakmedia; iStock by Getty Images)
May 11, 2022, 7:41 pm
Ministers push plan for more paid paternity leave to reduce wage gap
Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, Transportation Minsiter Merav Michaeli say move is aimed at improving equality in the workforce
By ToI Staff
SAJ's Hebrew school graduating class of 1945, with Judith Kaplan Eisenstein — the daughter of SAJ's founder, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who also had the first bat mitzvah in the US — and her husband, Rabbi Ira Eistenstein. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
March 19, 2022, 1:58 pm
100 years ago, the first bat mitzvah set into motion an ongoing Jewish revolution
March 18 marks the centennial anniversary of Judith Kaplan’s coming of age ceremony — a turning point not just in her life, but that of US Jewry as a whole
By Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Illustrative: In this February 1, 2020, photo, Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin smiles at Hanna Raskin during her bat mitzvah at Temple Sinai in Oakland, California (AP/Noah Berger)
March 19, 2022, 1:50 pm
American synagogues mark the 100th anniversary of the first US bat mitzvah
In a variety of programs throughout the United States, Jewish women are stepping up to the dais to honor Judith Kaplan, the girl who set a sweeping change in motion in 1922
By Jackie Hajdenberg
An Israeli woman outside a distribution center for needy people in Lod, September 11, 2012. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 3, 2021, 11:35 pm
Minimum wage hikes in Israel benefit men more than women, think tank says
Salary increases for lowest wage earners contributed to gender gap in employment, with more women losing work, according to new study
By Luke Tress
Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz speaks at the annual Greenbelt arts, faith, and justice festival in the UK in 2016. (YouTube)
June 17, 2021, 3:57 pm
UK teacher dropped by Orthodox school after she receives rabbinical ordination
Statement from Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz ‘stepped beyond the boundaries of mainstream Orthodoxy’
By Jenni Frazer
Labor party member Merav Michaeli casts her vote at a Labour party polling station in Tel Aviv on January 24, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 10, 2021, 2:44 pm
Women set to make gains, but Knesset still a good ol’ boy’s club
Labor’s Merav Michaeli ended the female party head drought and may lead a female-majority faction, but even as some slates put women in top spots, true equality remains a mirage
By Tal Schneider
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