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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 5, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/Flash90)
February 9, 2023, 6:47 am
New government to appoint first woman as ministry director-general
Sharon Uziel Peled to direct Public Diplomacy Ministry headed by Galit Distel Atbaryan, the first woman publicly named to position, alongside 23 male director-generals
By ToI Staff
A general view of the Israeli parliament building, the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 2015. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
September 8, 2022, 2:09 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 8: Incredible shrinking women in the Knesset; religious reforms
Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on National Unity disunity; religion reporter Judah Ari Gross on incentives to bury stillbirths and pressure on recalcitrant husbands
By ToI Staff
Shirly Pinto, the first deaf Knesset member, is sworn in to the Knesset on June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 30, 2021, 2:48 pm
Israel’s first deaf MK aims to be a full-time warrior for disability rights
Yamina lawmaker Shirly Pinto says she is devoting herself to ensuring that her hearing-impaired son will grow up in a different world than she did
By Amy Spiro
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
Ofir Akunis in Jerusalem on March 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
March 6, 2018, 10:26 pm
Marking women’s day, minister tells female MKs to ‘quit whining’
Ofir Akunis sparks backlash from lawmakers for urging women to shed ‘old-fashioned’ perceptions and learn from US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley
By Tamar Pileggi
Fireworks from the Mount Herzl ceremony seen over the Knesset in Jerusalem, marking the beginning of celebrations of Israel's 68th Independence Day, May 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 12, 2016, 2:39 am
6 ways Israel is counting its blessings on Independence Day
A growing population, an even faster-growing economy, more cellphones per capita than the US, as well as more women in its parliament – plenty to celebrate at 68
By Ben Sales
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