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Women light candles during a rally protesting violence against women in Jerusalem, November 27, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 4, 2018, 5:40 am
The women murdered in Israel in 2018
As calls continue for action to be taken to end the bloodshed, these are the women who have been killed in cases of domestic violence and abuse targeting females this year. So far
By Naomi Lanzkron
Emma Sass
April 20, 2018, 2:21 am
Emma Sass
70, I mean 13, women who don’t roar
The first annual list to defy all lists by honoring the slackers among us
Miriam Lottner
April 19, 2018, 12:26 pm
Miriam Lottner
70 extraordinary women of Israel
Celebrating those who have made the Jewish state their home, giving of themselves and their diverse talents
Golda Meir, women soldiers, religious feminists and 'Wonder Woman' Gal Gadot represent the various ways women in Israel and America have seen themselves reflected one in the other since 1948. (JTA collage)
April 19, 2018, 8:18 am
What women in Israel and the West have learned from seven decades of cooperation
Americans are inspired by powerful Israeli role models, and in return laid the foundation for an Israeli feminist movement fighting sexualization and wage disparity
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Naomi Chazan
March 12, 2018, 12:39 pm
Naomi Chazan
Doing gender equality
If we want a just, decent society, we must close the gaps between men and women
Undated image of late Israeli David Ben-Gurion at his home in Jerusalem. (GPO)
March 10, 2018, 9:19 am
Ben-Gurion sought more women in government, archived letter shows
First PM said appointing females to leadership positions was a ‘duty’ and ‘a privilege,’ hoped Israel would serve as an example of gender equality
By TOI staff
Dr. Nancy Strichman discussing her findings with attendees. (Gal Mosenson)
March 8, 2018, 4:02 pm
At Tel Aviv symposium, women come together to plan Israel’s feminist future
For International Women’s Day, NCJW and the Dafna Fund sponsor conference to reveal new study on women’s status in the Holy Land — and discuss fresh steps forward
By Tracy Frydberg
File: Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends a committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 23, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2018, 11:30 am
Education minister disavows rabbi who called women ‘weak-minded’
‘This is not what Judaism believes,’ Bennett says after Yosef Kelner of Eli pre-army academy tells students women lack intellect, spiritual capacity
By TOI staff
Rabbi Yosef Kelner (YouTube screenshot)
February 7, 2018, 1:23 am
Rabbi tells IDF recruits women ‘weak-minded,’ incapable of spirituality
At Eli pre-army academy, Yosef Kelner disparages women with careers as ‘gorillas,’ says sending females to college doesn’t turn them into ‘great geniuses’
By Tamar Pileggi
President Reuven Rivlin looks at the new NIS 20 and NIS 100 bills at a ceremony in his residence in Jerusalem on November 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 22, 2017, 11:08 pm
Rivlin hails equality as bank notes honoring women enter circulation
New NIS 20 and NIS 100 bills featuring female poets Leah Goldberg and Rachel Bluwstein presented to president
By Sue Surkes and TOI staff
Darya Henig Shaked is the founder of WeAct, an organization that brings Israeli female entrepreneurs on networking missions to Silicon Valley. (Courtesy of Shaked)
November 21, 2017, 6:20 am
How Israeli women techies are opening doors for each other in Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurs are working to give females the tools to advance in this notoriously male world
By Ben Sales
Hebrew poets Rachel (left) and Leah Goldberg (right) on new NIS 20 and 100 banknotes. (Courtesy of the Bank of Israel)
November 16, 2017, 8:24 pm
New bills to feature famous Israeli women poets
Leah Goldberg and Rachel Bluwstein, both Ashkenazi, to grace NIS 20 and NIS 100 notes, despite PM’s pledge to celebrate Sephardic Jews on bills
By Sue Surkes
Orli Gold Haklay
October 17, 2017, 11:44 am
Orli Gold Haklay
These are determined women
The Women Wage Peace march was hot and dusty, but that didn’t daunt anyone, as they set aside their egos and found hope
Fernanda Moura and Taciana Mello in Jerusalem, August 29, 2017. (Courtesy/Rick Rachman)
August 31, 2017, 3:47 pm
From Cuba to South Korea, the ‘Girls on the Road’ survey businesswomen worldwide
Two Brazilian filmmakers making a documentary on women entrepreneurs now put Israel and the Arab world under the lens
By Luke Tress
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, pose for a photo with pilot Nechama Spiegel Novak (right) before taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport to Greece, June 14, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
June 14, 2017, 8:22 pm
Flying PM, female ultra-Orthodox pilot breaks glass ceiling
Mother of 4 Nechama Spiegel Novak makes history taking Netanyahu to Greece for an official state visit
By JTA and TOI staff
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