Empowering women

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

Marking the new year, partners held a kickoff event on Thursday, with about 30 10th-grade students beginning another year of hands-on learning, mentoring, and exposure to scientific fields.

L'Oréal's Program for Advancing Girls in Science enters its third year
 An Israeli women places her vote in a ballot box (illustrative)

It is time for women to run the Israeli government - opinion

 Aleeza Ben Shalom was interviewed at the Jerusalem Post's Women Leader Summit.

Aleeza Ben Shalom to 'Post': 'I made it impossible to ignore me'

Female combat soldiers in the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion train in urban warfare.

As war continues, it's time to empower Israeli women - opinion


Bringing birth back to basics

East Jerusalem’s St. Joseph Hospital takes a woman-centric approach to birth

STAFF FLANK (and get comfortable in) one of the hospital’s new birthing pools

Girl power

CYBERGIRLZ IS currently conducting an all-girls marathon in which they’ll feel comfortable asking questions and making mistakes

Women finding their place in Israel's hi-tech sector

Female students with an aptitude for science and technology are increasingly opting to study different aspects of these subjects.

Ultra-Orthodox women work at Matrix Global, a hi-tech company, in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit April 3, 2011

Genesis Prize Foundation to infuse $1 million in women’s rights in Israel

“Over 70 years of its existence as an independent country, Israel has achieved enormous progress in the field of women’s rights and ensuring equal opportunity for its women.”

Women's empowerment

Women of the Wall threatened with ban from Western Wall

The NGO was accused of ignoring police and court instructions.

Women of the Wall and veteran paratroopers in New Month prayers beside the Western Wall security checkpoint, October 20, 2017.

The unsung – the women behind the Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center

We sit down with the women who, for many sexual-abuse victims, are the first port of call.

Volunteers meet at the Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center

A voice in the halls of power

The formula is simple. Find the core values of a society and check where the women stand in relation to them.

Women in the IDF

Walking the desert... to help unchain women

"Chained women" and allies from across Israel gather for a hike for support and sisterhood.

Agunot and former agunot during Yad L’Isha’s  first-annual Eshet Hamidbar (Woman of the Desert) 22-kilometer walk

Where is the international outrage?

As the human rights of women and minorities is systematically violated across the Muslim world, the international community is eerily silent, preferring to systematically condemn Israel

Gaza Islamic Lecturer Tahani Abu Jazar: Islam defends the rights of women

Thank you, Mr. President

Populations which were, up to now, excluded and relegated to the margins are standing tall, staring straight ahead and saying: no more. So, in an era like this, all that remains is to say: thank you.

PEOPLE PROTEST against Donald Trump in Pennsylvania in 2016.