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Israeli Women

Israeli women have been fighting for their rights even before the state of Israel was created. Israel was the third country in the world led by a female prime minister and is one of the only countries with a mandatory military service for women. 'Israeli Women' provides you with answers to all the questions you may have about women in Israel.

 Workers in the daycare educational system   protest in Tel Aviv, demanding better working conditions. October 3, 2021

WIZO Battered Women’s Shelter celebrates 40th anniversary

 MIRIAM CABESA’S ‘Vital Signs’ is on display at the Haifa Museum of Art

Miriam Cabessa - One of Israel's most influential artists

By ORI J LENKINSKI
 : An Israel El Al airlines plane is seen after its landing following its inaugural flight between Tel Aviv and Nice at Nice international airport, France, April 4, 2019.

In first, Israeli 'Iron Women' flight takes off to London

 Standing and on the floor are the women who took the exam. In the middle row, heads of Ohr Torah Stone and Matan Sharon

15 women blaze trail in Halacha education

 Col. Reut Rettig-Weiss was promoted to serve as brigade commander in the 99th Division's Artillery Brigade, the first woman in IDF history to fill such a role.

IDF appoints first woman to command a brigade

 Lihi Lapid, wife of opposition leader and Chairman of Israel's Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid, attends the funeral of Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan at the Habima Theatre in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, May 31, 2021.

For the first time, female Israeli authors outpaced males in publishing in 2021

By MADELINE FIXLER/JTA
 One of Jessie Sampter's quotes, taken from one of her poems and popularized in a book of quotations by women, appears on a sign in Ladakh, India.

The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli

Celebrity memorabilia sale's proceeds donated to women's shelters

 Major Y' prepares to take off with a pilot from her squadron, the 106th Squadron.

First woman to command an IAF flight school squadron

The 182nd Israeli Air Force Flight Academy's class' four women graduates

Four women among IDF Flight Academy's 182nd graduating class

Kim Kotzin

Int'l Women's Day: Philanthropic Wonder Women

By KIM KOTZIN
Sister of Michal Sela speaks at the Knesset committee's discussion on the rise of domestic violence during the coronavirus outbreak, June 22, 2020

Shadow pandemic: 6 steps to eliminate domestic violence - analysis

Gal Gadot at the Met Gala, May 6, 2019

Twitter explodes over casting of 'white, Israeli' Gal Gadot as Cleopatra

25th Critics Choice Awards – Arrivals – Santa Monica, California, US, January 12, 2020 - Jenny Slate

Jenny Slate to leave ‘Big Mouth’ because her character is half Black

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
The artist, Chana Cromer, in front of her work, ‘The Wise Hearted’ (2019)

Chana Cromer: The makings of a fabric artist

By MORDECHAI BECK
Chef Asmait Merhatsion runs the ‘Kitchen Talks’ program

The Eritrean cooking course teaching Israelis about asylum seekers

By LINDA GRADSTEIN
Justine Zwerling on the day of her interview with The Jerusalem Report in Jerusalem’s German Colony

Justine Zwerling: entrepreneurial superwoman

By LINDA GRADSTEIN
MDA EMT's Sharezat Alavid (left) and her sister

17 Bedouin women graduate Magen David Adom's EMT course

Agunot and former agunot during Yad L’Isha’s  first-annual Eshet Hamidbar (Woman of the Desert) 22-kilometer walk

300 Israeli women march for 24 hours in support of agunot

By HANNAH HEPNER
The dishes made in the spirit of freedom for agunot, including Café Michael’s decadent French toast

Beautiful dishes created to support 'agunot' or 'chained women'

By LINDA GRADSTEIN
Sharren Haskel puts on a head covering.

Sharren Haskel covers head in solidarity with Linor Abargil

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