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Inside the Knesset building.

Bill to expand loss of guardianship for abusive parents passes first reading

Abuse (illustrative)

We must not let violence against women fly under the radar amid war

Protesters gather in Tel Aviv to protest the rising domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic.

B'nai B'rith launches program supporting domestic violence survivors in Israel

The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 14, 2023.

Rising stress of war: 78% reported in boys and 69% in girls, concerning report shows

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

IOF releases report on violence against Israeli women in 2023

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Police vehicles

Man attempts to run over his wife, police indictment filed

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Woman in shadows (illustrative).

Arab women more in danger of domestic abuse in Israel than Jews

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

An illustrative image of an Israel Police officer.

Israel Police arrest abusive partner after woman calls in to 'order pizza'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Giora Praff Perry, suspected of murdering his wife, Esti Ahronovitz

Giora Perry convicted of wife's murder after four years

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

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

By ELIAV BREUER

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

Woman and two infant sons murdered in Taiba, husband arrested

By ARIELLA MARSDEN , SHIRA SILKOFF

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

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MK Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a press conference ahead of the upcoming elections, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2022.

Ben-Gvir has shown that the safety of Israeli women isn't a priority - opinion

By ZINA RAKHAMILOVA

Outside the apartment in Kiryat Ata where the 29-year-old woman was murdered on March 24, 2023.

Eight women in three months: Adisi Albana murdered in her home

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israelis dressed as characters from The Handmaid's Tale television show protest the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, February 25, 2023.

Margaret Atwood responds to Israel’s Handmaid’s Tale protesters

By HANNAH BROWN

Labor leader Merav Michaeli ditched her customary black for bright red in order to make a point about Israel's victims of domestic abuse, March 15, 2023.

Merav Michaeli ditches black for red ahead of domestic violence vote

By SHIRA SILKOFF

Police at the murder scene where a woman was seriously injured and later died of her injuries in Ashdod, February 21, 2023.

41-year-old woman killed with hammer, partner arrested

By SHIRA SILKOFF

A participant at the Jerusalem SlutWalk holding a sign reading "may their memory be a revolution," June 17, 2022

Murder of women on the rise in Israel, 50% increase from 2021

By SHIRA SILKOFF