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Women redefining power in Israel

Six women lead with courage

Women. Life. Freedom.
Six new Israeli Reform rabbis, all women, were ordained last year at the Hebrew Union College Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.

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

L'Oréal's Program for Advancing Girls in Science enters its third year

Science needs women: L’Oréal Israel’s girls-in-STEM program enters third year

 WOMEN MEDICYLISTS of MDA.

‘We believe in the power of women’: MDA chair champions women’s advancement in its mission


David Ben-Gurion wanted more women in government, IDF archives reveal

Newly disclosed letter written by first prime minister two months before establishment of state calls it ‘privilege and duty’ to name female ministers.

From Left: Shimon Peres, David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan

First female winner of 2018 Israel Prize announced

Yehudit and Yehuda Bronicki, the founders of Ormat Technologies, are to receive the Israel Prize in Industry.

Yehudit Bronicki

Four female soldiers heading to Armored Corps’ officer training

The soldiers are part of a pilot program by the IDF to integrate women into the corps.

Israeli female soldiers walk in front of a tank during an exercise at the end of their tank instructors course at Shizafon base

Co-ed army service in Israel

It’s time for the people’s army to listen to the voice of the people, and not just to the voice of extremists.

Women in the IDF

Economy Ministry: 43% of women want to open own business, but only 26% do

The findings further found significant gaps between men and women with regards to the entrepreneurial process, from the formulation of an idea until its implementation.

Israel's Economy Minister Eli Cohen

Meet the women who make Israel more secure

“Women bring a different viewpoint and sometimes different solutions and we don’t have enough women in the high echelons of the security establishment.”

(L-R) Sima Shine, Pnina Sharvit Baruch and Orit Perlov

Anglo women who mean business

“There is nothing that makes you feel better than helping someone else realize that they can succeed”

The Israeli Women Entrepreneurs’ Network retreat in May 2017

Perfecting the art of having it all

For many women, finding the right work/life balance is not easy. However, women who have won the EMET Prize have found ways to have fulfilling and demanding careers without being held back by gender.

EMET PRIZE director Ilana Ashkenazi, SHLOMIT BARNEA FARGO and PROF. ADI KIMCHI

Higher risk for breast cancer in Arab women exposed to men’s tobacco smoke

Arab women are unique in that they are exposed to forced smoking at a high level even though relatively few of them – aware of the danger to their babies – actually light up.

Dressed-up Israeli Arab Christian women walk to join an Easter Monday parade in Jaffa, in 2014

‘Women in key positions is the way to bring peace’ says Gamliel

Social Equality Minister Gamliel addresses counterparts from Arab countries.

Gila Gamliel