Gender Segregation

Knesset asks High Court to close challenges to academic gender-segregation law

The request follows a preliminary response from the council and its Planning and Budgeting Committee, seeking dismissal of the petitions as premature.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Chief Justice Esther Hayut and fellow Israeli Supreme Court judges at the High Court in Jerusalem
The Orthodox Jewish group of Rosh Yehudi sets up a gender partition during a public prayer for Yom Kippur, on Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, September 24, 2023

Israel tore itself apart on Yom Kippur - then October 7 reminded us of our collective 'we'

On Yom Kippur of 2023, Jews were pitted against Jews across the country. Thirteen days later, October 7 would remind Israelis that beneath their deepest divisions, there was still a collective “we.”

|ByHERB KEINON
ELLA HAVIN, medical student: In her Ben-Gurion University class, women comprise roughly 70% of students.

A regressive step: Israel's gender segregation law undermines medical education, equality - opinion

Gender segregation has no place in medical training. It risks sidelining women, weakening universities, and damaging the international standing of Israeli medicine.

|ByBRENDA KATTEN
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Five Higher Education Council members resign over gender-segregation law

According to Israeli media reports, four of the members submitted a joint resignation letter to President Isaac Herzog and Education Minister Yoav Kisch, who serves as chairman of the council.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN