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Ruti Spitzer (in red) and her team, Sayeret Tzuparim L’chayalim, dispenses warm soup and warmer blessings to soldiers stationed at the Karnei Shomron base.

‘Until the last soldier is home’: The women nurturing IDF troops with homemade food

By JUDITH SEGALOFF

ARCCI CEO Orit Sulitzeanu at the Jerusalem Post 2025 Women Leaders Summit.

The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel leading the Battle against sexual violence

By Ronnie Rosenman , In collaboration with the ARCCI

US first lady Melania Trump sits as International Women of Courage Award recipient Amit Soussana, an Israeli former hostage kidnapped during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, speaks during a ceremony at the Department of State in Washington, DC, US, April 1, 2025

Amit Soussana among global honorees at 2025 Int'l Women of Courage Awards

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Female combat soldiers in the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion train in urban warfare.

As war continues, it's time to empower Israeli women

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon, as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in the Oval Office of the White House, November 1, 1973.

Israel falls behind in female leadership in government

By Abigail Rubinstein

At Emunah's 90th anniversary event, a portrait of Sarah Herzog, grandmother of Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, is presented to him by chairperson Yifat Sela and Dina Hahn, chairperson of the board of directors, Emunah Women.

Wisdom of the past, energy of the future: Emunah Women celebrates 90 years

By JUDITH SEGALOFF

IDF WOMEN at an armored forces staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, earlier this year.

How Israeli women balanced heroism and home during the Israel-Hamas war

By LIAT KULIK

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 groups demand UN action against Hamas for Oct. 7 sexual violence

By HANNAH SARISOHN

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.

In Israel and on the world stage: Women face more violence, less representation

By Irit Skulnik

Tamar Luzzatto, Head of Business Development, Marketing and Innovation, The Luzzatto Group

When women's voices are less heard, innovation suffers. Here is why

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Instagram

Israel-Hamas War: Women share stories, strength on Instagram

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The art installation, Faces and Words, was created to encapsulate the stories and feelings of women in the University of Haifa community.

University of Haifa unveils 'Faces and Words' art installation on Israeli Women's Day

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Women take part in a 'Day Without a Woman' march on International Women's Day in New York, U.S., March 8, 2017

The 120 Women Leadership Council: Addressing a problem with no name

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY

Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

Women from Iran, Israel call to denounce Hamas and the Islamic Republic

Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

Israel has capable female leaders, it should use them

By MORAN ZER KATZENSTEIN

GROUP NINETEEN Negev office.

Helping women return to the job market during the war

By RIVKA NEUMANN

Erel Margalit and participants in the Galiladies startup program join for a group photo at the Galiladies' Bazaar event in the Margalit Startup City Tel Aviv headquarters, Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 30, 2024.

Israeli women-owned start-ups struggle to survive under shadow of war with Hezbollah

By AARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE

A PHOTO OF 23-year-old hostage Romi Gonen, on one of the billboards in London that carry the question: ‘Where is your daughter sleeping tonight?’ The organizers vow ‘to publish images of our young women on billboards around the world until everyone calls for the release of all the hostages.’

A letter to the kidnapped daughters of Israel

By LAUREN GUMPORT