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Religious feminist Alice Shalvi was a lifelong revolutionary - editorial

Teaching girls Talmud was unheard of in 1970s Israel. Shalvi did it anyway, and she didn't stop there.

Alice Shalvi
Alice Shalvi

Israeli professor, Jewish feminism educator Alice Shalvi dies at 96

Reading a torah scroll

Law firm releases report on JOFA after allegations made against sex-guru founder

  The Fem Forward 2023 cohort in Morocco

FemForward kicks off first Moroccan, Israeli cohort in Casablanca


Rally opposes lack of government policies combating violence against women

The rally was instigated due to the most recent death of Michal Sela, who was allegedly murdered by her husband and found covered in stab wounds in their apartment.

Children lie on the ground, covered in red paint, as part of a Women's Rally in Tel Aviv to protest the government's inaction on the issue of violence against women.

Sam Spiegel Film School names new director

Director Dana Blankstein-Cohen has been unanimously appointed as the new head of Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School.

Dana Blankstein-Cohen

Economy Ministry launches program for promoting female business leaders

‘Time to shatter the glass ceiling between women and business’

Women's conference promoting female business leaders

Congress of female students attempts to solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The congress will be held in the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, led by Dr. Sapir Handelman.

The Congress of the Female Students

Autonomy in preventing the ‘aguna’ problem

Get-refusal can affect a man or a woman.

A father holds his child [Illustrative]

Women's rights campaign to feature on Jerusalem buses

Multiple women's organizations will collaborate with the campaign, including the Israel Women's Network, the WIZO movement, the Na'amat movement, the Kolech organization, and the Emunah Association.

Rachel Azaria and Oren Hazan spar at a finance committee meeting, January 15, 2018.

Campaign posters vandalized by radical feminist group

The activists also spray painted temporary construction walls with the phrase "Demeaning women = Danger!" and "We exist."

Vandalized Kulanu campaign posters, with the number 26 sprayed over Moshe Kahlon's face

Shas tells High Court women can run for political office in the party

Shas’ statement comes in response to a petition filed in 2016 by Ruth Colian, a haredi activist for women’s political representation within for the haredi community.

Ruth Colian, head of the first ultra-Orthodox Jewish women’s party Uvizchutan, campaigns in Beit Shemesh in March.

First six female recruits enlist to serve on Navy's new Sa'ar 6 missile ships

The soldiers will serve on the Sa'ar 5 until the INS Magen becomes operational in 2019.

The six female recruits who with serve aboard the Sa'ar missile ship

Preliminary data from local elections finds increase of 100 women

Despite the growth in the number of women, it is only a slight increase when looking at the big picture, increasing from 13.5% female representation in 2013 to 16.6% today.

‘LAST WEEK, the city that had effectively erased its women elected a woman to be mayor’: Aliza Bloch.