Women empowerment

Where women are already leading

Ahead of her appearance in the upcoming Miami Conference, World Emunah Director Meira Lerner looks back at a prolific 2025: ”There shouldn’t be a struggle to find women leaders. They’re here.”

Meira Lerner, Director of World Emunah, at the World Emunah Women in the Arts event
HONOREES AT Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards together with Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, Chochmat Nashim director (top row, 2nd L); and Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Foreign Ministry special envoy for innovation (bottom row, 1st R)

Israeli women honored at Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards

THE WRITER addresses a Maof-Tech gathering at the Technion in Haifa.

The strength of women in the capital market - opinion

An ‘Inspiring Panel of Women’ appears before an audience with the aim of empowering the next generation of Israeli girls.

Empowering the next generation: Israeli girls in STEM are leading the future - opinion


Women in Israel's key decision-making posts: Not just numbers - opinion

While the Bennett government is a harbinger of change, when it comes to national security and foreign policy, much remains to be done.

COALITION CHAIRWOMAN Idit Silman speaks in the Knesset  in Jerusalem on Monday.

Advancing women in gov't is a blessed change - editorial

In what universe does a public representative speak like that to their colleagues? How on earth can someone have the nerve to humiliate a parliament member in such a humiliating way?

Idit Silman, head of the Arrangements Committee leads a Committee meeting at the Knesset, on June 28, 2021.

Jerusalem SlutWalk: Hundreds march to protest rape culture

The character of Jerusalem’s SlutWalk is influenced by the diversity of the city.

Israel's SlutWalk marches through Jerusalem

Women in Saudi Arabia to be allowed to live, travel without male guardian

The landmark ruling states that "an adult woman has the right to choose where to live. A woman’s guardian can report her only if he has evidence proving she committed a crime."

A Saudi woman wearing a facemask walks with her luggage as she arrives at the King Khalid International Airport, after Saudi authorities lift the travel ban on its citizens after fourteen months due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 16, 2021.

Wife of President-elect Herzog visits domestic violence shelter

The visit comes following her husband's election as President of Israel on Wednesday, replacing outgoing President Reuven Rivlin as his term nears its end.

Michal Herzog, wife of the president-elect, with residents of the Na'amat women's shelter.

UAE Canadian Ambassador: Sarah and Hagar are part of the Abraham Accords

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum touted the work of the Gulf Israel Women’s Forum, which she started soon after the Abraham Accords were announced last August.

Global Investment Forum Women's Panel: Marcy Grossman, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Houda Nonoo, Ruth Wasserman-Lande, and Arielle Steinreich.

Is silencing women, holding them captive to be the norm in Israel?

THERE IS a relentless push to theocracy in Israel, one incident at a time. We see creeping infringement on public space, limiting the rights and human dignity of women, in multiple ways.

THE FACES of women are defaced on a billboard in Jerusalem

Vogue highlights Orthodox women in campaign against get refusal

The fact that such a big publication brought up the matter of gets reveals the importance of the issue & the deepness of the imbalance power between men and women on that matter.

Vogue magazine

Emi Palmor: The Israeli watchdog involved in Facebook's ban on Trump

With an imminent decision on Trump on the Oversight Board’s docket, all eyes are on its 20 members.

Emi Palmor.

‘Men tested and failed; Time for women to shine,’ - fmr. Yemeni minister

"My goal is to change the mindset of Yemenis and those involved in Yemen to consider women as leaders and give them their rightful place."

Nadia Al-Sakkaf and The Media Line's Felice Friedson run a journalism workshop in the offices of The Yemen Times in 2011.