Maya Brand-Feigenbaum, 18, from Kiryat Tivon near Haifa, first declared her refusal to be conscripted into the Israeli army on July 14 and was subsequently sentenced to two prison terms, during which she spent at total of 27 days behind bars. After appearing before the Conscience Committee earlier this week, she was granted an exemption…
To mark 52 years since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories it conquered in June 1967, Women in Black will hold four special protest vigils today (Friday, June 7), beginning from 13:00 at locations around the country: in Jerusalem’s Paris Square; at the entrance to Kibbutz Gan Shmuel; in Tel Aviv on the corner of…
On Friday, March 8, a march will be held in Haifa to commemorate and express solidarity with International Women’s Day. The march and rally afterwards are being sponsored by The Democratic Women’s Movement of Israel (Tandi) and Hadash – The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. In the invitation to the public issued by the…
Arab and Ethiopian women in Israel earn less than half of the national average salary and are the most disadvantaged groups in the country’s job market, according to a survey of minorities in the labor market released on Monday, February 18. Overall, women’s salaries are 59% of men’s salaries in Israel, the survey found. The…
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…