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Four young girls dressed in matching outfits hold Taliban flags on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the US withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi)
August 15, 2026, 1:40 pm
Taliban marks 5 years back in power as Afghan women remain shut out of public life
Officials tout stability and end to war while women remain barred from universities and girls over 12 are shut out of school; UN warns of deepening rights crisis
By Qahar Afghan and Susan Frazer
Illustrative: Passengers exit an Egged bus outside the Jerusalem central bus station, on August 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 7, 2026, 2:16 pm
Pregnant woman says she was assaulted on bus by religious man for wearing tank top, leggings
Tal Kostika says elderly man called her a ‘whore,’ elbowed her in the stomach and spat on her in Haifa suburb; police investigate
By ToI Staff
Dr. Nadia Khir, right, the first female Druze doctor in Israel, consults with a Druze woman in the Clalit health clinic in Julis, Western Galilee, on May 22, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 23, 2026, 7:12 am
First female Druze doctor in Israel awarded prize for breaking barriers
Dr. Nadia Khir honored with prestigious Habama Shelahen prize for blazing trail 35 years ago; ‘wanted to help’ women in her community who couldn’t seek care from male practitioners
By Diana Bletter
Iranian women walk along a busy street in Tehran on April 25, 2026. (Photo by AFP)
April 27, 2026, 6:59 am
As some hijabs come off in Iran and enforcement eases, locals fear it’s temporary
‘No real change has taken place in people’s freedom,’ laments Tehran resident, with women fearing authorities are distracted by the US-Israeli war, and will crack down again later
By AFP
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett holds an election event for women in Tel Aviv, December 3, 2025. (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)
December 7, 2025, 7:06 pm
Courting women voters, Bennett vows to revolutionize female representation
At a campaign event for female activists, the former PM says 6 of his new party’s 9 co-founders are women — ‘not because they are women, but because they are excellent’
By Tal Schneider
An unveiled woman walks outside the Cinema Museum during 'Tehran Design Week' in Tehran on November 17, 2025. (Atta KENARE / AFP)
December 2, 2025, 6:13 pm
Majority of Iranian lawmakers decry lack of enforcement of modesty laws for women
As Iranian women defy the law and let their hair down, Tehran’s conservative wing sounds alarm to judiciary, says it ‘cannot remain passive’ in the face of ‘abnormal behaviors’
By AFP
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 24, 2025, 3:21 pm
Taliban slams possible ICC arrest warrant, says court should go after Israel and US
Kabul accuses court of trying to ‘impose a particular interpretation of human rights’ after chief prosecutor says Taliban leaders suspected of gender-based crimes against humanity
By AFP
A woman holding a rifle borrowed from a Syrian opposition fighter poses for a picture, next to a government forces tank that was left on a street, at the Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, December 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 14, 2024, 4:22 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 14: Day 435 – How women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine
As the rebel factions in Syria fight to wrest control, the world looks at their treatment of women. Middle East analyst Ksenia Svetlova, a former MK, ranks Israel and its neighbors
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ksenia Svetlova
A woman holding a rifle borrowed from a Syrian opposition fighter poses for a picture, next to a government forces tank that was left on a street, at the Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, December 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 13, 2024, 8:50 am
What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine
As the rebel factions in Syria continue to fight to wrest control, the world looks at their treatment of women. Middle East analyst, a former MK, ranks Israel and its neighbors
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ksenia Svetlova
Iraqi women demonstrate against underage marriage in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on August 8, 2024. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
December 1, 2024, 11:23 pm
Iraqi MPs to debate revised bill critics fear will allow 9-year-old girls to marry
Legislation allows people to choose religious law for family matters, communities to set own guidelines; MP says latest revised version sets the minimum marital age at 15
By AFP
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
This UGC image posted on Twitter reportedly on October 26, 2022 shows an unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's hometown in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to mark 40 days since her death in morality police custody. (UGC / AFP)
September 15, 2024, 1:25 pm
Two years after Mahsa Amini protests, Iran restores order but not legitimacy
Activists hope 2022 death of woman in custody who allegedly violated dress code won’t be in vain, but many are still reeling from the brutal crackdown on demonstrators
By Stuart Williams
Iranian women without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walk past a banner showing missiles being launched from Iranian map in northern Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 14, 2024, 1:52 pm
Some Iranian women take off hijabs as anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death approaches
Defiance comes despite what UN calls ‘expanded repressive measures, policies’ by theocracy; one says her ‘quasi-courage’ is due to Amini: ‘We have to protect this as an achievement’
By Jon Gambrell
Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)
July 5, 2024, 9:17 pm
A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis
The Justice Ministry’s demand that the rabbinate consider women for a position traditionally reserved for rabbis is key to the delay in succession for the first time in over a century
By Canaan Lidor
Labor MK Yael Dayan delivers a speech to the Knesset plenum to mark International Women's Day on March 7, 2000. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
May 18, 2024, 4:16 pm
Former MK Yael Dayan, trailblazing feminist and peace activist, dies at 85
Labor lawmaker was among the most prominent voices in the country advocating for equal rights; also a celebrated writer, she was the daughter of iconic statesman Moshe Dayan
By Amy Spiro
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