Equality

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026 - analysis

Women are everywhere in Israeli life, but absent where power and protection are decided.

|ByCHANI KAPLAN
Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.
Tom Nesher wins the Ophir Award for Best Director for ‘Come Closer’ in 2024.

How Israeli women dominate the film industry in ways Hollywood still can't

While Israeli filmmakers face pressure abroad, women have emerged at the center of the industry, bringing new voices and perspectives into focus

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Nili Block’s first Combat Sambo competition in 2024 vs Croatia.

World champions with no leagues: The broken pipeline for Israel's female athletes

Why Israel’s young female athletes still struggle to find the infrastructure, funding, and professional pathways their male counterparts take for granted

|ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
The outlook for increasing women’s participation in political life is bleak, with no women in the ultra-Orthodox parties, not a single party led by a woman, and none even committed to equal representation on their candidate lists.

Israel hits all-time low in women's political representation. Can it be reversed? - opinion

As Israel heads to the polls, can the next election halt – or deepen – the steady erosion of women’s political representation?

|ByANAT THON-ASHKENAZY

Strauss still has work to do on business diversity - chairperson

Ofra Strauss, Chairperson of The Strauss Group, related her experience as a woman becoming the chairperson of the company.

APRIL 27, 2023ByZACHY HENNESSEY
The Redefining Diversity in Business panel at the Jerusalem Post's "Celebrate the Faces of Israel" conference at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, April 27, 2023.

Shalva and the State of Israel – a story of love, inclusion and equality

"Shalva’s services benefit all sectors of Israel’s population through the entire life cycle," says Shalva's founder Kalman Samuels.

APRIL 27, 2023ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Shalva building

Israel has responsibility of equality, shared future for all - Jerusalem's mayor

Lyon said he has placed this responsibility at the top of his agenda as Israel's mayor in the last few years.

APRIL 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jerusalem's Mayor Moshe Lyon speaks at the Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem Celebrate the Faces conference.

Israel is failing Ethiopian Jews - opinion

In order to succeed, we have to ensure that during their school years, our children do not face the same racism that earlier generations experienced.

APRIL 27, 2023ByTIRSIT LEGESSE-BISHAW
PARTICIPANTS TAKE part in Olim Beyahad’s Ariella excellence program.

Passover: Time to bring freedom, equality to Israel's Palestinians - opinion

We must seek equality among all Israelis and we must accept the principle that both peoples living here have the same right to the same rights.

APRIL 4, 2023ByGERSHON BASKIN
PROTESTERS IN the visitors’ gallery hold up copies of the Declaration of Independence, as the Knesset plenum discusses the passage of Basic Law: Israel – the Nation State of the Jewish People, in 2018.

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

May Golan's new ministry will be transferred some of the authority and responsibility currently held by the Social Equality Ministry, which is helmed by Amichai Chikli.

MARCH 30, 2023ByJERUSALEM 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.

The reform Israel needs is not part of Yariv Levin's plan - opinion

The opportunity for real change is upon us and the demand for a constitution is being expressed. It will take time, but the process has finally begun.

MARCH 29, 2023ByGERSHON BASKIN
OUR CONSTITUTION should make the official languages of Israel – Hebrew and Arabic. Communities should no longer have the right to bar someone from a different community living in their midst, says the writer.

'If not now, when?' Emotional Australian PM advances Indigenous referendum

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the question the government wants to set in the referendum later this year, urging Australians to back it.

MARCH 23, 2023ByREUTERS
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, surrounded by members of the First Nations Referendum Working Group, speaks to the media during a news conference at Parliament House in Canberra, March 23, 2023.

Improving women’s equality helps men live longer too- study

Researchers found that gender equality in education had the strongest association with longer life expectancy for both genders.

MARCH 7, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Amy Bettys, co-chair of the Women's Health and Reproductive Rights organization, raises her fist during a chant outside of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office in support of the Reproductive Health Act during a Reproductive Rights rally in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, March 22, 2017.

Int'l Women's Day: Breaking through Israel's cement ceiling - opinion

I’m an Arab. I’m a Christian. I’m a Maronite. And I’m a woman. Each of these is a crucial part of my identity.

MARCH 7, 2023ByMOUNA MAROUN
THE WRITER attends a signing of an MOU involving the University of Haifa, United Arab Emirates University, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, on tackling the consequences of climate change and pollution.