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Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky (right) is seen leaving the Lahav 433 police unit headquarters in Lod on July 25, 2025 (Roy Alima/Flash90)
July 27, 2025, 1:13 pm
‘Witch hunt’: Likud defends MK accused of rape, as accuser tells of alleged assault
Netanyahu’s party claims AG has ‘ulterior motive’; Milwidsky allegedly raped ‘Aleph’ while coaching her to commit perjury at sexual misconduct trial of Kabbalistic group leader
By ToI Staff and Ariela Karmel
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
National Unity MK Pnina Tamano-Shata presidents over a meeting of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women on November 18, 2024. (Knesset Spokesman's Office)
November 18, 2024, 5:34 pm
81% of sex crime complaints in Israel closed without an indictment, report says
Association of Rape Crisis Centers presents figures to Knesset committee hearing; MK: ‘I feel like the system is failing again and again’
By Amy Spiro
Demonstrators protest against violence towards women at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on May 18, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 20, 2020, 5:55 pm
New Knesset subcommittee to battle the murder of women
Panel to ensure budgeting for programs combating domestic violence, oversee reforms; 12 women killed in violent assaults this year
By Stuart Winer
Journalist and political analyst Ksenia Svetlova, formerly an MK from the Zionist Union party. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 17, 2018, 11:52 pm
Opposition lawmaker files request for emergency Knesset hearing on Keyes affair
Ksenia Svetlova calls to summon US envoy Dermer for not alerting PMO to warning about spokesman’s alleged improper behavior, slams ‘thunderous silence of all those involved’
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative: A Palestinian woman receives treatment at the Wolfson Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Holon, on April 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 3, 2018, 4:57 pm
Israeli doctors urge 14 Gaza cancer patients be allowed out for treatment
Oncologists warn that delaying diagnosis and treatment can lead to deaths; rights group says 14 Palestinian women are waiting for permission to enter Israel
By Stuart Winer
An abortion clinic (illustrative image: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 3, 2017, 5:24 pm
15,000 illegal abortions performed in Israel each year, activists claim
Some back-alley procedures called ‘dangerous,’ undertaken by ‘nurses, dentists’; Health Ministry says it has no figures on phenomenon – ‘How are we supposed to know?’
By Marissa Newman
Alexandra Berger-Polsky
January 1, 2017, 3:14 pm
Alexandra Berger-Polsky
Keep your rabbis out of our uteruses!
It’s high time to trust women to make their own calls on abortion; MK Glick’s Monday statement ignores their rights instead
Palestinian women at a demonstration in 2012 protesting violence against women held at the spot where a woman's throat was allegedly slashed by her husband, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
March 8, 2016, 3:21 pm
One in three Arab women fears violence within family
Knesset study shows stark contrast in feeling of personal security between Arab and Jewish populations
By Daniel Douek
Arab Joint List MK, Aida Touma-Sliman, center, and Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein, left, seen during the Committee on the Status of the Women meeting at the Knesset on June 3, 2015. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 3, 2015, 6:05 pm
Knesset votes in first-ever Arab committee chair
Aida Touma-Sliman of the Joint Arab List will head Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality
By Gedalyah Reback
MK Aliza Lavie of Yesh Atid leads a discussion at a meeting of the Knesset Committee for the Status of Women. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 30, 2013, 7:07 pm
New law cracks down on sexual harassment by public officials
MK Lavie: Legislation tells public servants: ‘You must not exploit the position and authority that comes with your job’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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