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

US, UK, France request emergency UN Security Council meeting on Hamas sexual violence

By JOANIE MARGULIES

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

Israel's Knesset hosts conference for International Women's Day

By ELIAV BREUER

Women Leaders Summit 2024

Women Leaders Summit 2024

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

High Court rules: Women can be on committee to select Chief Rabbi

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

MK May Golan visits at MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's makeshift office in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, February 14, 2022.

Minister May Golan to global women's organizations: 'Raise your voice against the crimes of Hamas'

By Anna Barsky/Walla

ORN AND raised in Jerusalem, 48-year-old Dana Shemesh has been Israel's top female professional bodybuilder for almost two decades.

Israeli bodybuilder Dana Shemesh back and as good as ever

By AVI KUMAR

Israelis attend a protest march in Bnei Brak against the billions in funds provided to ultra-Orthodox parties in the state budget, on May 17, 2023.

Women to march in Bnei Brak in protest of mistreatment on buses

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FROM LEFT: Deputy Finance Minister Michal Waldiger, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, MOMentum CEO Ben Pery, the writer, President Isaac Herzog, and Ophir and Bat-Galim Shaer pose at the Jerusalem Unity Prize ceremony at the President’s Residence last week.

The Jewish people are a family, albeit a dysfunctional one - opinion

By LORI PALATNIK

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

Groups slam Israeli gov't for ‘medieval’ backslide on women’s rights

By MAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE

MK May Golan visits at MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's makeshift office in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, February 14, 2022.

Likud's May Golan tapped for Israel's new Women's Status Ministry

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

AMASSING DEMURELY in absolute silence, at a protest of families in Herzliya.

Israeli 'Handmaid's Tale' protests: Fight to save women's rights

By SIGAL BEN DAVID

Noa Kirel receives her Medal of Distinction at the 2023 Peres Center for Peace & Innovation's Awards on Tuesday.

Noa Kirel among those honored by Peres Center on International Women’s Day

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pregnant woman receives a vaccine in the US

Pregnant women hospitalized because of COVID-19 had secret advantage - study

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH