Israel 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
 WOMEN MEDICYLISTS of MDA.

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

 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'

 Tema Klausner (left) and Meira Lerner (right): Giving voice to the women of the religious Zionist community.

World Emunah's legacy and leadership: Celebrating 90 years and looking ahead


Equal pay day: women still earn less in Israel

Despite the fact that the number of women who entered the Israeli workforce over the past years has increased, women still earn less than men.

YOUNG WOMEN study at Jerusalem’s Midreshet Lindenbaum

Women are allowed to receive rabbinic accreditation, High Court rules

Mainstream Orthodox Judaism does not yet recognize women as rabbis, there is no reason that women cannot take the tests that are otherwise given to men studying to become rabbis.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

Global initiative launches prayer campaign for health care workers

The campaign is called "Care with a Prayer" and run via an online platform. People can submit names of healthcare workers that they want prayed for on Momentum's website.

The poor man’s Passover prayer

International Women's Day: Climbing Israel's hi-tech ladder

While efforts to increase Arab and ultra-Orthodox participation in hi-tech have gained momentum in recent years, the share of women in hi-tech has remained static at approximately one-third.

Picture: From left: Bond CTO May Walter, Sight Diagnostics CTO Sarah Levy Schreier and CodeFuel Head of R&D Inbal Dayagi

International Women's Day: Israeli students become "Ambassadors for a Day"

14 foreign embassies in Israel, headed by female Ambassadors, hosted students from Naamat-Lod high-school for the "Ambassador for a Day" initiative.

High school students spend time together after class.

Daf Yomi: a completion of seven-and-a-half years of daily Talmud study

Religious and secular women, from a wide range of ages, gathered together in Jerusalem to celebrate this triumph.

NO LONGER is Gemara study just for men: A sea of women celebrate the Siyum Hashas at the Jerusalem International Convention Center in early January.

Female Jewish filmmaker gives voice to oppressed women

Kweskin tackles hard-hitting subjects in her films like female genital mutilation, honor violence, forced marriage and systemic exclusion of women from education.

Paula Kweskin created the Censored Women’s Film Festival out of a growing concern that women’s voices worldwide were being silenced.

There are fewer Israeli women in politics than it may seem

"If the polls are correct, she said, the number of females elected next week will be 28 or 29. But numbers don't reveal the whole picture."

Gesher leader Orly Levy-Abecassis

Israel Railways sued after woman asked to change carriage for men prayers

According to the suit, "it was disruptive that she was present...during prayer." The company, however, claims that it was the woman who complained about the prayer, and was offered, not told to move.

Israel's new high-speed rail line travels on its tracks near Jerusalem September 25, 2018

Jerusalem pop-up events celebrate female entrepreneurship

Each woman-run business is taylored to a different audience and each produces a different product, most of which are directed towards women.

Devorah, owner of Devorah Cosmetics in Jerusalem, attends a female entrepreneurship pop-up event, Jerusalem