The Knesset’s Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality held an urgent meeting Wednesday, May 24, to discuss a report aired on Channel 10 on discrimination against hijab-wearing women seeking employment with the Super-Pharm pharmacy chain. “After watching the news report, I agreed to hold an urgent meeting, because I too am worried…
To mark half a century since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories it conquered in June 1967, Women in Black will hold four special protest vigils on Friday, June 2, 2017 from 13:00 at locations around the country: in Jerusalem’s Paris Square; at the entrance of Kibbutz Gan Shmuel; in Tel Aviv on the corner…
The social campaign for the equality of women in all areas of life has brought about partial, yet significant, results and has raised public awareness of issues like femicide, sexual offenses, and sexual harassment. But these achievements are still far from the end of discrimination against women in what they are paid, their chances for…
In recent days, several women have come forward with stories of sexual assault by a current MK from the HaBayit HaYehudi (The Jewish Home) party. Chagit Moriah-Gibor, who won the 36th slot in the far-right party’s last primary, opened a post on a religious women’s Facebook group on Wednesday, November 30, in which she complained…
MK Oren Hazan (Likud) tried last Thursday evening, October13, to attack Hadash MKs who were present in a demonstration held in front of the “Sukkah for Peace” organized by the “Women Wage Peace” movement at the Arim Mall in Kfar Saba. During the demonstration, chairman of the Joint List Ayman Odeh MK (Hadash) said: “The…
A group of activists are leading protests to remove the commander of the Lahav 433 police anti-corruption unit, Deputy Commissioner Roni Ritman. This follows a petition that was heard on Thursday, September 29, in Israel’s Supreme Court seeking to indict Ritman. Ritman was investigated for sexual harassment last year, but in December 2015 then Attorney…
At the close of the Jewish New Year holiday on Tuesday evening, October 4, more than 2,000 women participated in the launch of the “March of Hope” in which thousands are expected to participate, among them women, members of the Knesset, and academicians, walking from Rosh Hanikra to Jerusalem in order to advance a political…
Hundreds women and men marched Friday afternoon, September 30, in the city of Lod to protest the gender violence and murder of women in Arab society. The march, which began in Lod’s old city and ended in a vigil outside the old municipality building, marked a week since the murder of Dua’a Abu Sharkh – a murder…
A demonstration was held in Lod on Monday, September 26, to protest the phenomenon of femicide in the Arab community after the apparent “honor killing” of Dua’a Abu Sharkh, 32, who was shot at close range by masked gunmen in front of her four children last Friday, September 23. On Sunday, after protests from the…
For Israel’s Chief of Police, Ronnie Alsheikh, notions of civil and human rights and the equality of people, regardless of the color of their skin or their gender, are located somewhere out there in the periphery. He’s doubtless heard that people use these terms, but apparently hasn’t internalized that they are fundamental to democracy and…