More than one hundred women parliamentarians from countries around the world met on Thursday, November 8, in the chamber of the British House of Commons to commemorate the centennial of women’s suffrage in the UK. Female MPs from Canada, Columbia, Israel, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, Oman, Ireland, Gambia, Slovakia and Venezuela addressed the gender pay gap…
The Prohibition of Solicitation of Prostitution Services Bill passed its first reading in the Knesset plenum on Monday, October 22, by a vote of 39-0. Under the terms of the bill, first-time offending Johns would be fined NIS 1,500, with the penalty increasing to NIS 3,000 for those who repeat the offense within three years.…
Unidentified persons throwing firebombs targeted a musical performance by a mixed-gender band in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel on Saturday night, September 15. There were no injuries or damage from the attack and the show went on as planned, according to Al-Ittihad, the Communist daily newspaper. Prior to the show, the…
Israeli military authorities extended the administrative detention of Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar on Thursday, June 14, for a third six month period, just two weeks before she was to be released from military prison. Since being detained by Israeli forces that raided her family home in the central West Bank city of al-Bireh on July…
A meeting on the impact of Israel’s blockade on Gaza’s women, which Chairwoman of the Committee for of the Advancement of the Status of Women and Gender Equality, Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint List), scheduled for today, Monday, June 4, has sparked outrage among Zionist MKs. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and other lawmakers oppose the…
Rim Banna, a leading Arab-Palestinian singer, songwriter, and composer, has died after battling breast cancer for almost nine years. The 51-year-old died in her home town of Nazareth on March 24, and is survived by her mother, brother, and three children. The Chair of the Knesset’s Joint List, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), wrote on Twitter…
The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) sends its sincerest condolences to all progressive and democratic forces in Brazil on the murder of Rio de Janeiro city council member, Marielle Franco. The CPI is party to the grave concerns regarding the army’s involvement in the repression of the city’s residents, already suffering from poverty, crime and…
Two days before International Women’s Day, March 8, the government’s far-right Minister of Science and Technology, Ofir Akunis, sparked a controversy in the Knesset when he told women parliamentarians that if “you continue to whine, you will never become leaders.” “You want to mark Women’s Day, and that’s fine,” Akunis said in remarks during a…
Israel’s air force has carried out more than 100 bombing incursions deep inside Syrian territory over the past few years, with little acknowledgement from the Israeli media and without suffering any military or diplomatic repercussions. Early Saturday morning, February 10, this changed. Iranian forces in Syria launched a drone that penetrated Israeli air space. An…
For the first time, the Council for Higher Education (CHE) has appointed someone to be responsible for preventing sexual harassment, CHE representatives told the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women. Sigal Mordoch, an assistant to the deputy head of the CHE, will be in charge of dealing with issues relating to…