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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

 Michal Herzog speaks during a ceremony for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Rosh haShana (Jewish New Year) at the president's house with representatives of the diplomatic delegations to Israel in Jerusalem.

Israel's First Lady in Time Magazine: 'Hamas is weaponizing women's bodies'

 A Guardian Self Defense Krav Maga class in the basement of a Manhattan synagogue, May 21, 2024.

NY Jews turn to krav maga for self-defense amid spike in antisemitism

By Luke Tress/JTA
 US Vice-President Kamala Harris speaks during a Juneteenth concert hosted by US President Joe Biden on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, US June 10, 2024.

VP Harris launches initiative providing support for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence

The Global Women's Coalition Against Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War 20 May 2024

International coalition meets to discuss sexual violence as a weapon of war

 Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, speaks during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine with a focus on women, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., April 11, 2022.

October 7 reminds us the feminist fight has a way to go

By Ksenia Maximova

Hertz for women

 A police car at night.

Police arrest two Bedouin residents for kidnapping, sexual assault of 15-year-old in the South

 Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City.

Several women on TikTok claim they were punched in the face on the street by strangers in NYC

 Demonstrators gather during a protest the crimes and sexual violence against women in October 7 massacre, outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 4, 2023.

UN sexual violence envoy: Israelis were raped, sexually tortured on October 7

 SHERYL SANDBERG at the memorial site of the October 7 Hamas massacre of young Israelis attending the Supernova party at Re'im

Released Gaza hostage breaks silence on Hamas sexual violence in Sheryl Sandberg doc

 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.

Justice must be served for perpetrators of sexual violence - editorial

ACTIVISTS PROTEST against recent cases of violence against women at Habima Square in Tel Aviv last week.

Under the shadow of war: Women's rights in Israel sacrificed for political benefit

By KEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
 Members of the Arab community holding hundreds of fake coffins as they protest against the violence in their community, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2023.

Violence in Israel's Arab sector rises sharply in 2023

 Released Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel attends the lobby for releasing the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 9, 2024.

Gaza hostage: 'Hamas terrorist touched, tortured female soldier beside me'

 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

 Zaka personnel cleaning the remains of blood stains from the October 7 massacre, in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, December 19, 2023.

Full extent of Hamas's sex crimes on October 7 may never be known - Telegraph probe

 People gather and light candles to remember the victims who were murdered by Hamas militants at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, October 17, 2023.

Feminist scholars blast ‘abandonment’ of Israeli women by major organizations