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Bearing witness: Inside the two-year investigation into October 7 atrocities

 DR. COCHAV ELKAYAM-LEVY, head, Civil Commission on Crimes on Oct. 7 by Hamas Against Women and Children.Premium

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women

 Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.Premium

Israeli women dominate film industry in ways Hollywood still can't

Tom Nesher wins the Ophir Award for Best Director for ‘Come Closer’ in 2024.Premium

A woman rabbi on healing Israel: Authority means service, not power - opinion

A woman rabbi in Israel reflects on leadership, feminism, and spiritual responsibility in a wounded nation

Six new Israeli Reform rabbis, all women, were ordained last year at the Hebrew Union College Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.
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World champions with no leagues: The broken pipeline for Israeli athletes

Why Israel’s young female athletes still struggle to find the infrastructure, funding, and professional pathways their male counterparts take for granted

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Israel once ranked 48th for women in politics, now its 106th

As Israel heads to the polls, can the next election halt – or deepen – the steady erosion of women’s political representation?

The outlook for increasing women’s participation in political life is bleak, with no women in the ultra-Orthodox parties, not a single party led by a woman, and none even committed to equal representation on their candidate lists.
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'Bravery has never belonged to one gender': Israel's female combat legacy

As female combat soldiers take center stage in Israel’s current war, a historic site preserves the stories of women who have defended the state

Female combat paramedic soldiers stationed at their army base in Be’eri, just a few kilometers from the Gaza border.

A knock at the door: Standing with Israel's youngest war widows

Standing with Israel’s youngest widows after October 7

Over 300 Israeli women have been widowed due to the deaths of spouses serving in the security forces since the October 7, 2023, attack.

Captain Ella trades desk for the field as IDF's new Arab spokesperson

Lt. Col. Ella Waweya, aka ‘Captain Ella,’ was recently named as the next army spokesperson for the Arab world

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Washington's tactical amnesia on Syria could fuel jihadist resurgence - analysis

Why Western policy may be paving the way for Islamist rule, ethnic cleansing, and regional instability

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Walking the Exodus: One woman's journey through the desert Moses crossed

Tracing the biblical Exodus route through the desert, one woman found a story of endurance and the unseen labor that makes survival possible

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'Why fire rockets when you can fire lies and win?' – opinion

Amid a relentless, daily assault of slander and delegitimization, how can Israel fight back in the crisis of disinformation?

Just as the Iron Dome intercepts incoming rockets, Israel needs a parallel defense system to intercept falsehoods – an ‘Iron Dome’ for disinformation in a war where narratives, not missiles, shape  global opinion.

Solidarity is not a strategy: Israel-Diaspora relations need structured partnership - opinion

How Israel and Jewish communities worldwide can move from instinctive support to structured partnership

Voice of the People council members during the organization’s in-person conference held last year in Haifa. The 150-member council with Jewish leaders from six continents was set up by Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to foster dialogue and create actionable strategis for challenges facing the Jewish