Violence against women

Maccabi Haifa displays misogynistic banner during derby soccer match with Hapoel Haifa

The banner showed an offensive, violent, and misogynistic picture of a female fan with the Hapoel Haifa shirt, and caused widespread criticism.

A Maccabi Haifa banner displaying an offensive, violent, and misogynistic picture of a female fan.
 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)

2025 deadliest year on record for Arab society in Israel, Abraham Initiatives report finds

 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)

Haifa court sentences psychiatric nurse to seven years over death of teen patient

ISRAELI WOMEN protest outside UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, in November. Finally, yet months too late, a UN team investigating the sexual violence against women in Israel on October 7 found “reasonable grounds” to believe that such violence did indeed occur.

Jewish, Israeli rights groups urge UN to recognize Hamas’s systematic sexual violence


Rising femicide rates in the Middle East spark calls for urgent action

The rise of femicide, particularly within Arab communities, has led to an urgent call for social, educational, and governmental interventions to tackle this tragic issue.

People attend a demonstration to protest femicide and violence against women in Paris

Another day, another murder in the Arab sector - analysis

Israeli-Arabs are met with a prevalent sense of fear that has gripped their community; a feeling of a lack of personal security.

 POLICE AND MEDICAL personnel at the scene of the murder of a woman in Lod, last week.

Security and safety for Arab citizens should be a basic right -editorial

Campaigns to halt the rising homicide rate within the Arab sector should not be motivated by fear of terrorism.

 Police and Magen David Adom (MDA) personnel are on the scene of a shooting attack in Lod, Israel, on July 9, 2022.

Israeli woman stabbed to death in Rishon Lezion, ex-husband detained

The suspect, in his 50s, will be brought before a court following the conclusion of the police's investigation to extend his arrest.

 Israel Police squad car.

Murders in Arab sector a 'national plague', Herzog says

"This is civil terror – yes, civil terror – that is threatening us all, and we all must come together against it immediately," President Herzog said.

 Aftermath of a shooting incident near Gan Ner, May 6, 2023.

Woman and two infant sons murdered in Taiba, husband arrested

The victim's husband, Mohammed Massaroa, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife and children.

 Israel Police on the scene of the murder of a woman and her two infant children in Taiba.

Women facing violence, forced marriage may get EU refugee status, top court adviser says

International protection as a refugee can be granted to persons who are exposed to risks of violence because they are members of a "particular social group"

 Israelis light candles in memory of women murdered in domestic violence, at a set up memorial on Rothschild Boulevard, ahead of International Day of Violence Against Women. November 24, 2020.

'Dont Passover us': Four arrested as Israeli women's group begins graffiti campaign

This activity was designed to evoke the dramatic moment in the Passover story at the conclusion of the Ten Plagues, the death of the first-born.

 "Do not pass over us" is written in red by LOTEM anti-gender-violence activists.