Abuse

Israeli nurse accused of abusing hospitalized toddler released from police custody

Rimer, a 53-year-old Ramle resident, was arrested last week, with investigators saying that the pediatric intensive care unit CCTV captured footage of her crimes.

 An illustrative image of a nurse writing a prescription.
An illustration of a young girl looking at a computer screen, warning STOP! in large lettering.

More than half of online abuse reports now come from child victims themselves, Israel finds

Rabbi Yaakov Medan speaks during a protest against the planned eviction of the outpost of Amona, in front of the Israeli parliament on January 30, 2017.

'Ritual sexual abuse' of minors: Senior religious Zionist rabbi warns of ‘social narcissism’

 The Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem. January 15, 2017.

Suspect arrested for indecent acts on patients at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital


Woman found dead in burned-out apartment, husband arrested

Police are investigating the possibility that the husband deliberately started the fire in the home while his wife, their three children, and his father were all inside the apartment. 

 Israel Police at the scene where a man is suspected of murdering his wife and then setting his home ablaze in Rehovot, on September 27, 2022

'We must create an Iron Dome against domestic abuse'

Yelena Greenberg's murder took place a day after the prime minister's meeting on domestic abuse, which was attended by some 30 women. The crime scene had a circle, too, but with only men.

 Yelena Gerenberg

IDF Netzah Yehuda soldiers suspended after filmed beating Palestinians

Netzah Yehuda, a specialized IDF enlistment track for haredi soldiers, has a history of some abusing their positions and mistreating Palestinians.

IDF soldiers at West Bank checkpoint 370

Man sentenced to 1 year in prison for assaulting disabled coworker

A Shufersal employee, Kamel Hamidan, was sentenced to 12 months of prison time on Sunday after he was filmed in 2019 abusing a fellow coworker who is disabled. 

A WOMAN pushes children in a shopping cart in front of a Shufersal ‘Sheli’ in Ma’aleh Adumim

Electronic bracelet bill passes first reading in final Knesset plenum

A number of bills passed their first reading in the 24th Knesset's final plenum on Monday, including a bill that will force domestic abusers with restraining orders to wear a tracking device.

An empty Knesset Plenum

Israel extends statute of limitations for sexual abuse of minors

Statute of limitations for sexual abuse of minors extended to age 35 • Will apply to family, institutions that knew of abuse

Male hands arrested with handcuffs in Criminal concept (illustrative)

Electronic tracking of domestic abuser approved in preliminary vote

The bill, if it passes fully, would require confirmed domestic abusers for whom a protection order has been issued to wear electronic tracking bracelets.

 Protesters outside the Talmon Prison where Real estate promoter Alon Kastiel is being early released. Kastiel had been charged with sexual harrassment and rape, after 12 complaints by different women. June 27, 2022.

A new book explores abusive rabbis and the Jewish institutional culture that protects them

Jewish anthropologist Elana Sztokman has been researching rabbinical abuse for years. Her new book is an effort to peel back the curtain on abusive power dynamics across every denomination.

Rabbi Barry Freundel leave courthouse, February 19, 2015

Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial shows how truth shines through - opinion

I have a strong opinion of the Depp-Heard case, because like millions like me, I got sucked into it and wouldn’t miss one word of this circus-court case, which was televised worldwide.

 LADY JUSTICE: I tried to understand why this court case became such an obsession for half of the world.

Annual Jerusalem SlutWalk protests violence against women

In Hebrew, the event is known as "Tza'adat Hamufkarot," with the word Mufkarot chosen for its double meaning of both "slut" and "abandoned."

 A participant at the Jerusalem SlutWalk holding a sign reading "may their memory be a revolution," June 17, 2022