Gender equality in israel

Equality is designed, and so is inequality - opinion

How feminist urbanism is rethinking public space design

Ella Katz Schonfeld.
First Lady Michal Herzog, the cover story of this issue, greets schoolchildren during an official visit to Australia.

Two years after October 7, Israeli women still battle for equality - from the editor

 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.

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026 - analysis

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


Art, and women, making an impact on the landscape of Israel

EMET Prize laureates Michal Rovner and Hanna Herzog describe the powerful impact their work has on how we see the world.

EMET Prize laureates Hanna Herzog and Michal Rovner

Israeli educational program trains teen girls for elite cyber jobs

CyberGirlz aims to close the gender gap in an industry where women only make up 11 percent of the workforce

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him

Israeli Court allows gender-separate course in Civil Service

The ruling relates to the “Influencers” pilot program set up by the Civil Service designed to help integrate haredi graduates into the Civil Service for employment in the public sector.

INCREASED INTEGRATION of Haredim into the workforce has resulted in a record-low poverty rate in the Haredi sector.

Gender policy document removed from IDF site

The IDF said that the document was already withdrawn in March.

Female soldier, Lotem Stapleton, a physical education officer, demonstrates a move during a training session in Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defense technique, at a military base in the Golan Heights March 1, 2017.

Chief Rabbi demands Civil Service course for haredim remain gender-separate

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef ruled that gender separation is a necessary requirement in Jewish law for all study frameworks.

Young haredim take part in a protest against mandatory IDF conscription, March 2018

Israel Airport Authority bans anti-gender discrimination ad

The banner was placed in the airport to remind women that the gender discrimination they may face on an airplane is illegal.

File photo of an EL AL Boeing 777 aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel July 14, 2015. REUTERS/Nir Elias/File Photo

Women’s tattoos, piercings judged more harshly than men’s, study finds

They're motives for getting tattoos and piercings are also different!

Third Annual Tel Aviv Tattoo Convention

Security Minister pledges new programs to combat domestic violence

The establishment of the special departments will require budgeting for an additional 36 positions.

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the TLV in LDN festival in London

Politicians outraged that no women on Jewish Agency chair shortlist

Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli said it should have been obvious to the American Jewish leaders that they were neglecting half the population.

Natan Sharansky

Finland ambassadors meet with Knesset committee on gender equality

“They wanted to learn about our mechanisms and how we operate in this field, and it seems that they were impressed.”

Joint Arab List MK Aida Touma-Sliman