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Knesset Chair of the Committee for the Status of Women and Gender Equality Meirav Cohen leading a committee session, December 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 18, 2026, 8:13 pm
MK vows to stop ex-minister accused of sexual assault from heading aerospace firm
During Knesset hearing, alleged victims warn against Silvan Shalom leading state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries: ‘You are placing Israel’s security in the hands of a rapist’
By Ariela Karmel
A woman wears punching gloves as mock red hands symbolizing slain women reach out of the ground in a protest display to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, outside Her Academy, a vocational school for survivors of prostitution and abuse, in Tel Aviv. November 24, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 25, 2025, 4:39 pm
Law enforcement a no-show at Knesset discussions on violence against women
Opposition MKs who led meetings to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women slam Ben Gvir, who was touring prison services’ domestic violence unit
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, leads a cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on December 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 12, 2023, 7:04 pm
Netanyahu draws outcry for quote equating Oct. 7 toll to Oslo Accords deaths
After criticism by opposition and MK in his party, PM says notion of PA ruling Gaza after war is as dangerous as was bringing PLO officials from Tunisia under 1990s accords
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Opposition leader Yair Lapid (left) and Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen at an emergency meeting following recent cases of gender inequality in public spaces, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 16, 2023, 7:57 pm
Lapid says PM must fire ministers who attack IDF, touts bills on gender discrimination
Opposition chief promotes legislative package after cases of sexism on buses, says they’ll seek to tackle sexual harassment, inequality in top jobs and pay gap
By Michael Horovitz
Former social equality minister and current Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen (Noam Moskowitz / GPO)
August 3, 2023, 8:16 am
‘It’s already happening’: Ex-gender equality minister says women’s rights under attack
Scholars join lawmakers in slamming government policies that add up to a lowering of women’s standing
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man walks outside the army recruitment office in Jerusalem, July 2, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
July 25, 2023, 2:39 pm
UTJ presents bill to shield Haredi draft exemptions, prompting Likud disavowal
Legislation seeks to equate Torah study and military service, leading opposition to rage against proposal and Netanyahu’s party to deny it will be advancing to a vote
By Stuart Winer, Canaan Lidor and Jeremy Sharon
Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, right, head of the Special Committee for Oversight of the Israeli Citizens' Fund, leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 6, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 10, 2023, 2:58 pm
Women’s rights groups angered over bill to politicize body promoting gender equality
Ministers give initial okay to legislation replacing existing Authority for Advancement of Women with a new body subordinate to minister and coalition; critics: It’s ‘unthinkable’
By Stuart Winer
Noam's sole lawmaker, Avi Maoz, speaks at the outset of his Knesset faction meeting, December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90/File)
May 28, 2023, 9:02 am
Cabinet to give anti-LGBTQ MK Maoz power to monitor content in individual schools
Mayors say they won’t work with far-right deputy minister; principals’ forum: ‘Shame’ on Israel that ‘homophobe, misogynist, chauvinist, Kahanist’ Maoz has influence on education
By ToI Staff
(R) United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni on January 18, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and (L) Noa Kirel on September 7, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 22, 2023, 1:02 pm
Outrage after top Haredi MK says he would donate clothing to pop star Noa Kirel
Arguing more funding should go to ultra-Orthodox children’s education, Gafni implies secular schools teach about pop stars and makes comment about her outfits
By ToI Staff
People enjoy a hot summer day at the Ein Lavan Spring in the Jerusalem Mountains, July 28, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2023, 9:10 pm
Outrage over UTJ bill to gender-segregate bathing at national park springs
Proposal by ultra-Orthodox lawmakers calls for 15% of operating hours to be divided between men and women; opposition MKs slam move as establishing ‘religious state’
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivors Eva Schloss, left, Anne Frank's posthumous stepsister when her mother married Frank's father, and fellow survivor Pinchas Gutter are displayed as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage called 'New Dimensions in Testimony,' in New York, September 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
November 20, 2022, 6:13 pm
Government approves funds to record Holocaust survivors’ testimonies for the future
Ministers in outgoing cabinet okay NIS 3.5 million for creating video testimonies from around the world, digitizing them for use on social media and in schools
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Yair Lapid, (center-left) meets with Arab municipal leaders in the northern Arab Israeli city of Nazareth, October 25, 2022. (Kobi Wolf)
October 25, 2022, 5:40 pm
In Nazareth, Lapid urges Arab Israelis to vote in election — for their own sakes
Prime minister meets with over 20 Arab municipal leaders, warns them that any advances made under the current government will be rolled back if opposition gains power
By ToI Staff
Tshuva Kabra, left, director of the national welfare system at the Chasdei Naomi charity, embraces Holocaust survivor Freida Rovenchim, in her family apartment in Jerusalem, January 26, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
September 15, 2022, 9:52 am
Germany to boost funding for Holocaust survivors’ nursing costs
14,000 people in Israel will receive additional NIS 1,200 per month as part of deal with Claims Conference to provide 130 million euros for survivors around the world
By Stuart Winer
Thousands take part in the annual Jerusalem Pride Parade, June 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 2, 2022, 9:13 pm
‘A victory of light over darkness’: 7,000 march in Jerusalem’s 20th Pride Parade
Held under tight security, march ends peacefully; 10 arrested, suspected of disruptive plans; in 1st such appearance, Knesset speaker says: ‘You are entitled to love who you want’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Joseph Kleinman, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi death camp wearing a face mask as he stands at his porch in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 27, 2022, 8:57 am
Ahead of annual memorial day, 161,400 Holocaust survivors living in Israel
Average age is 85.5, with over 1,000 over age 100; social equality minister notes urgency in providing assistance as some 40 survivors die each day
By Stuart Winer
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