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UK police charge Russell Brand with rape

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

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Israel’s new rape law includes male victims, abolishes outdated 'sodomy' term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

Israelis protest against Benjamin Netanyhahu's government in Jerusalem, March 23, 2025

Protester allegedly commits indecent act against Border Police officer in Jerusalem protest

By EFRAT FORSHER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

French actor Gerard Depardieu arrives on the day of his trial for two sexual assaults allegedly committed on the set of the film "Les Volets Verts", at the courthouse in Paris, France, March 24, 2025.

French actor Gerard Depardieu in court as trial over alleged sexual assaults of two women begins

By REUTERS

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

A courtroom (illustrative)

Israeli indicted for posing as woman to orchestrate child sex crimes

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US flight attendant pleads guilty to recording minors in airplane bathroom

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

Kim Arad speaking with Michal Danino Hacohen

Kim Arad addresses parole c'tee to keep offender behind bars

An aerial view shows the Dome of the Rock in front and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

More than half of Israeli universities fail to report sexual harassment complaints

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

Avraham Alok, who claimed to have supernatural abilities to take advantage of women and others.

Israeli who claimed to have supernatural powers to commit abuse indicted

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Police arrest 28 suspects for sex offenses against minors

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Peter Yarrow holds a guitar with a set list taped to it during a performance at City Vineyard in New York City, Jan. 9, 2018.

The Jewish community shouldn't sing Peter Yarrow’s songs - and here's why

By Mary Zamore/JTA