Segregation

Municipality is not 'modesty patrol': Bnei Brak councilman slams sidewalk gender segregation

About a week ago, the Bnei Brak municipality announced an unusual measure to separate men and women on sidewalks in the area surrounding the city’s event halls.

Street sign reading women on one side and men on the other, in the ultra orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, July 15, 2026.
Activists protest against a bill promoting gender-segregated academic study tracks, introduced by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026.

Haredi women, academics file petition against Israel's new gender-segregated education law

Ladies in Bnei Brak watching as the men leave to protest outsidem of Military Prison 10 on June 24, 2026.

Bnei Brak set to become Israel's first city with gender-segregated streets, municipality announces

Orthodox jews protest against Tel Aviv municipality Shabbat bus service, outside the home of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in Tel Aviv on December 7, 2019.

New data maps Israel’s freedom divide: Liberal cities surge, conservative ones slip


It’s not black vs white: SA chief rabbi responds to Trump refugee program - opinion

It is an old leftist trope that South Africa’s problems can be read across a stark racial divide – let alone be resolved by old leftist ideologies of state-directed economic strategies.

 Rabbi Warren Goldstein

Breaking barriers: a Jewish teen’s role in desegregation in 1950s Texas

A small Texas town took a stand against segregation through sports.

 THE WRITER is photographed in the New Braunfels High School Unicorn 1950 Yearbook. Racial discrimination and the various sins that go with it are faded shadows of what they once were, says the writer.

Knesset advances controversial gender segregation bill for higher education

Opposition MKs criticized the proposed bill as being discriminatory and as legitimizing segregation in Israeli society. 

 MK Limor Son Har-Melech and MK Gilad Kariv attend Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on August 7, 2024.

Yom Kippur prayers in Tel Aviv can take place with partitions to separate genders, High Court rules

Justices Mintz, Grosskopf, and Kasher issued the High Court ruling, which stated that the Tel Aviv municipality is authorized to make arrangements for the Yom Kippur prayer.

 Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023.

More Israelis support allowing public segregated prayer than not - poll

The polls also found that most Israelis think that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to New York went well.

Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays. September 25, 2023.

Fights break out over gender-segregated Yom Kippur prayers

The conflict broke out after some of those praying tried to set up partitions in the square to create gender segregation.

 Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023.

Gender segregation in Bnei Brak is a good thing - opinion

Maybe you highly educated and discerning women could still learn a thing or two from the women of Bnei Brak, and from their approach to the institution of marriage.

 PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE in Bnei Brak against the discrimination and exclusion of women, last week. ‘Stop wasting time on Bnei Brak,’ says the writer. ‘Look for those places where women are objectified, belittled, and betrayed.’

Stop allowing Israeli buses to be unsafe for women - editorial

Public transit is a basic right and no one should feel unwelcome, uncomfortable, or unsafe boarding a bus in Israel. The ban on gender segregation and harassment must be enforced.

 A ceremony for the new parking lot for electric buses of the Dan company in Bnei Brak, February 19, 2023.

No pilot for gender-segregated swimming in nature reserves - A-G

The Israel Nature and Parks Authority doesn't have authorization to restrict access to sites based on gender, said the AG's office.

 YEHUDIYA Nature Reserve.

Pilot program won’t desegregate South Tel Aviv schools, parents charge

There are fears that the Israeli Education Ministry’s motive to keep the schools segregated may be to prepare children of migrants for eventual deportation.

Children at a kindergarten for asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv.