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View of the Nazareth District Court on December 25, 2019.

Trial begins for terrorist Atallah for sexual assault of Gilboa female soldier-guards

By SARAH BEN-NUN , Walla!

UK police charge Russell Brand with rape

An illustrative image of an individual with handcuffs.

'I give candy to children to make them happy': Police arrest Lod man for sexually assaulting child

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MK Limor Son Har-Melech attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on July 18, 2024.

Israel’s new rape law includes male victims, abolishes outdated 'sodomy' term

By Avraham Bloch

The Lotus Center - acute care room at Kaplan medical center

What happens after sexual assault? A guide to immediate care in Israel

A flag of Cyprus flies on a vessel of the Port and Marine Police in Ayia Napa Marina, Cyprus December 6, 2023.

Cyprus court acquits five Israeli men of 2023 gang rape charges

By JOANIE MARGULIES

Orit Sulitzeanu, executive director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel

“The needs of the country are not as important as the needs of the private person”

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

A general view of the United Nations Security Council during a meeting on "Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe," at the UN headquarters in New York, US, May 4, 2023.

Turning the victim into an aggressor

Gateway of India in Mumbai

A rape in India won’t stop Israelis from traveling there—should it?

'Blood Rights Council': Netanyahu, MKs bash UN report on IDF in Gaza

By ELIAV BREUER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A courtroom (illustrative)

Israeli indicted for posing as woman to orchestrate child sex crimes

Police officers in Thailand, in Bangkok, Thailand (illustrative)

Israeli nationals wrongly accused of attempted gang rape in Thailand

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Police officers patrol the perimeters on the day farmers march towards New Delhi to press for better crop prices promised to them in 2021, at the Shambhu barrier, a border crossing between Punjab and Haryana states, India, December 6, 2024 (illustrative)

Israeli woman gang raped in India, friend killed after being thrown into the river

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Women activists hold a banner in support of an allegedly raped British person outside the courthouse in Paralimni, Cyprus October 5, 2023.

Ayia Napa gang rape: EU human rights court finds UK woman faced unfair investigation

View of a DNA kit during a press conference at La Rochelle tribunal, western France, on April 14, 2014; illustrative.

Knesset slam delay in rape kit preservation law

Demonstrators walk through downtown Jerusalem in the city's fourth annual SlutWalk to protest rape culture, in June 2022.

The October 7 massacre’s invisible victims: Time to recognize survivors of sexual trauma

By ORIT SULITZEANU

Sad person in tunnel (illustrative)

Knesset committee changes definition of rape to protect men

Amit Soussana, a former hostage, speaks at Hostage Square, July 13, 2024.

'Liri Albag saved my life' Amit Soussana reveals for first time in Uvda interview

By Mathilda Heller