Segregation

Municipality is not 'modesty patrol': Bnei Brak councilman slams sidewalk gender segregation

About a week ago, the Bnei Brak municipality announced an unusual measure to separate men and women on sidewalks in the area surrounding the city’s event halls.

Street sign reading women on one side and men on the other, in the ultra orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, July 15, 2026.
Activists protest against a bill promoting gender-segregated academic study tracks, introduced by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026.

Haredi women, academics file petition against Israel's new gender-segregated education law

Ladies in Bnei Brak watching as the men leave to protest outsidem of Military Prison 10 on June 24, 2026.

Bnei Brak set to become Israel's first city with gender-segregated streets, municipality announces

Orthodox jews protest against Tel Aviv municipality Shabbat bus service, outside the home of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in Tel Aviv on December 7, 2019.

New data maps Israel’s freedom divide: Liberal cities surge, conservative ones slip


Israeli bill seeks to prevent Arab citizens from living in Jewish areas - NGOs

Human rights groups call the private bill racist and undemocratic, saying it will be used to prevent Arab-Israelis from moving in.

A Palestinian man and an Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jew are seen walking in Jerusalem's Old City on April 17, 2022

MK Moshe Gafni proposes law to segregate Israel's nature reserves

A bill put forward by the UTJ MK could see Israel's nature reserves become segregated by gender for at least 15% of their operational hours.

 Head of the Finance committee MK Moshe Gafni leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2023.

Gender apartheid in Afghanistan: Lessons from Taliban's women ban - analysis

They returned stronger than 20 years ago with a public-relations machine portraying them as moderate, but the gender-apartheid hasn’t changed.

Afghan female students walk near Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 21, 2022.

Jerusalem grocery bans women at certain times of the day - report

While some forms of gender segregation are legal, most forms of segregation resulting in discrimination in public services are banned.

 People walk in Mea Shearim neighborhood on November 22, 2022 in Jerusalem

Zionists helped defeat segregation in Baltimore - opinion

This story began in the autumn of 1946, when the Zionist activists known as the Bergson Group sponsored a Broadway play called 'A Flag is Born.'

Child survivors of the Holocaust ride aboard the S.S. Ben Hecht.

Louisiana governor to pardon plaintiff in landmark racial segregation case

Homer Plessy was arrested 1892, setting off a chain of events that led to the 1896 Supreme Court case.

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN uses a ‘colored’ water fountain in Segregation-era American South.

'Woke' America is no beacon of democracy - opinion

What is happening in America is that people are so “woke” that they eventually become racist taking us back in time to a period no thinking person wants to revisit.

People participate in a meditation walk in support of Black Lives Matter organized by the Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship near the Justice Center in Portland, Oregon, U.S., September 1, 2020.

Israelis are most concerned with internal Arab-Jewish conflict - study

The majority of Jews in Israel do not perceive Israeli-Arabs as equals. * Only 25% of Arab-Israelis call themselves “Israeli”.

Violent riots broke out in Ramla last night amid the ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis in east Jerusalem.

Ruling on gender segregation in colleges is a mistake - opinion

The High Court ruling that allows the continuation of gender-segregated classes is a surrender to male students from a patriarchal culture, and is devastating as a model for Israeli society

Students at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem earlier this year.

Iranian-linked cleric attacks Chicago for 'immorality, homosexuality'

The Iraq-based cleric Muqtada al-Sadr promotes gender segregation in Iraq.

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks in Najaf, Iraq May 17, 2018