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Recently reelected in second spot for the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash), MK Aida Touma-Sliman, 54, is among a not-so-large group of outgoing parliamentarians who are pretty much guaranteed a place in the next Knesset after the April 9 election. Although women’s issues are dear to her heart, she said to a Haaretz…
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…
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…
The Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality met with protests as it toured the city of Bet Shemesh on Sunday, December 24. The committee members expressed their opposition to the “modesty signs” posted at the entrances of some of the city’s predominantly Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) neighborhoods. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that…
The Knesset approved legislation lowering the age of automatic custody of children for divorced mothers in a preliminary vote on last Wednesday, May 17. Currently, barring special circumstances, mothers automatically receive custody of children under the age of six in cases of divorce. Under the new bill, that age would be lowered to two. The…
The Knesset gave final approval on Tuesday, March 21, to legislation extending paid maternity leave by one week. As a result, women who have or will give birth after January 1, 2017 are now entitled to 15 weeks of paid leave. However, parents may optionally choose to take one week of leave together, instead of…
The government is dragging its feet in advancing a national program to significantly decrease domestic violence. The ministerial committee for domestic violence has repeatedly put off authorizing the program, which it received four months ago. During these months, three women have been murdered, ostensibly by their husbands or partners. In response to the government’s inaction,…
According to the front page of Yediot Ahronot published on Sunday, May 1, President Reuven Rivlin is inclined to commute the prison sentence of former President Moshe Katsav due to a “serious deterioration of the former president’s health.” However, a statement issued from the President’s Office indicated that no formal request has been received and that,…
The Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women and Gender Equality held a meeting on Wednesday, March 23, in honor of International Agunah Day, which is marked on the Fast of Esther. International Agunah Day is a day of solidarity with agunot, “deserted women” whose absent husbands have refused to grant them…
“Police are not above the law,” said the head of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women on Monday, March 14, the day after it became known that Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich said police will no longer investigate anonymous sexual harassment complaints issued against commanders. “The commissioner doesn’t have the authority to make this…