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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

Israeli women

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: An Israeli reserve soldier and his wife pose for a picture after their wedding in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, October 25, 2023. (Erez Ben Simon/Flash90)
November 22, 2024, 4:44 pm
IDF rabbinate opposes asking troops to sign form ‘unchaining’ wives in case of disaster
While conditional divorces can free women in case of a husband’s disappearance or loss of mental faculties in battle, rabbis say pushing such a document on soldiers may hurt morale
By Mati Wagner
Revital Fouks. (Screenshot)
October 21, 2024, 8:04 am
In Hadera’s city center, an exhibit honors female heroes of Oct. 7 and its aftermath
Those highlighted in ‘Iron Women: Lionesses of Iron Swords’ come from a variety of fields, including medicine, forensics, communications and the military
By Hadas Kuznits
Iris Haim speaks at the Chabad house in San Mateo, California, May 27, 2024, while on a speaking tour of North America. (Jeff Bartee Photography)
June 17, 2024, 4:09 am
Iris Haim, mother of killed hostage, tells US Jews: ‘I bring Israel a new voice of hope’
On a speaking tour of North America, nurse whose son Yotam Haim was accidentally shot dead by IDF soldiers calls to end Israeli polarization and hints at a run in politics
By Natan Galula
The scene of the murder of an 18-year-old woman in the western Galilee on June 9, 2023. (screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
June 8, 2024, 10:30 am
Domestic violence rates nearly doubled since Oct. 7. Eight women were murdered in 2024
Experts at conference on femicide say it’s not the more widespread availability of weapons that is killing women, it’s the indifference of those meant to protect them
By Diana Bletter
Yarden Garzon of the Indiana Hoosiers playing against the Lipscomb Bisons at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, November 19, 2023. (Gretta Cohoon/Indiana Athletics)
April 5, 2024, 4:46 pm
Full court press: Rising NCAA basketball star Yarden Garzon proudly reps Israel
The 20-year-old Indiana Hoosiers guard from Ra’anana uses platform to dispel ‘fake news’ about her home country as anti-Zionist rhetoric soars amid ongoing war in Gaza
By Ed Klajman
Israeli conductor Bar Avni poses during a photo session at the Philharmonie in Paris on March 18, 2024. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)
March 22, 2024, 3:12 pm
Israeli conductor Bar Avni wins women’s international competition in Paris
32-year-old beats out 197 competitors from 47 countries to earn the title of ‘La Maestra 2024’
By Andrew M. Rosemarine
Ballot envelopes for the municipal elections in Jerusalem -- yellow for the mayor; white for the council -- pictured at a warehouse on February 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 26, 2024, 7:07 am
As Israel heads to municipal elections mid-war, here’s what you need to know
The war against Hamas forced 2 postponements of the vote, but it will finally take place on Tuesday – except in those parts of the country that have been evacuated
By Tal Schneider
Policewoman Az-Oolay in Jerusalem. (Shai Kendler)
February 18, 2024, 4:30 pm
Send in the clown: A slap-happy ‘policewoman’ is a gas at Israel’s many protests
Hashoteret Az-Oolay doesn’t discriminate between causes or sides as she spreads smiles and a message of love at demonstrations of all kinds across the country
By Bernard Dichek
A Israeli soldier walks in front of a tank near the border with Lebanon, Saturday, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
December 12, 2023, 11:53 am
For Israeli women, the IDF war room’s glass ceiling is constantly reinforced
For weeks before Hamas invaded, female soldiers tried to sound the alarm. They battled heroically that day and since. But when it comes to decision-making, women are still left outside
By Shira Silkoff
Executive leadership of UN Women, from left: Sima Bahous, Sarah Hendriks, and Moez Doraid (UN Women Screenshot)
December 2, 2023, 9:54 pm
FM Cohen: UN Women’s condemnation of Hamas attacks ‘tepid and late,’ chief should quit
Diplomat says UN investigation into sexual violence on October 7 should be led by neutral body, not panel made up of ‘Israel-haters and antisemites’
By ToI Staff and Amy Spiro
Israeli women protest outside the UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, November 27, 2023. (Flash90)
December 2, 2023, 12:43 pm
Eight weeks after Oct. 7 onslaught, UN Women condemns ‘brutal attacks by Hamas’
International body leads statement with ‘regret’ that fighting resumed; says is ‘alarmed by numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities, sexual violence’ during massacre
By ToI Staff and Amy Spiro
Illustrative image: a woman undergoes a mammogram (gorodenkoff via iStock by Getty Images)
September 20, 2023, 7:31 pm
Health officials remind Israeli women of new mammogram guidelines
As younger women increasingly diagnosed with disease, recommended age to begin screening goes down from 50 to 45
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: View of the inside of a Dan bus in Tel Aviv on February 22, 2022. (Avshalom sassoni/Flash90)
September 1, 2023, 10:26 pm
In latest case of alleged harassment, woman says bus driver told her ‘You’re naked’
22-year-old says Dan driver repeated his comments twice when she boarded with a sleeveless shirt; company says it’s investigating complaint
By ToI Staff
Teenage girls on a bus from Ashdod to Safed who say they were asked by the driver to go to the back of the bus, cover up their summer outfits and put on blankets so as not to offend Haredi passengers on August 13, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 21, 2023, 12:10 am
Bus companies face 3 lawsuits over series of discriminatory incidents against women
Egged, Electra-Afikim and Nateev Express are each being sued after drivers allegedly harassed or discriminated against female passengers
By ToI Staff
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