Empowering women

Deep in the trenches of women’s rights, Na’amat fights the good fight

President of World Na’amat Hagit Pe’er reflects on the efforts to keep women in the public sphere amidst the hostile political reality.

Hagit Pe’er (second from the right) during the World Na'amat visit to the Gaza Envelope.
Frieda Ross, President of World Emunah

World Emunah: The women who are holding Israel together

A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Women of the Wall call on Katz to include women in national Remembrance Day ceremony

L'Oréal's Program for Advancing Girls in Science enters its third year

Science needs women: L’Oréal Israel’s girls-in-STEM program enters third year


"The Wise Woman Builds Her Home"

Once a mother is influenced by a certain way of life, a basket of values, or a tradition, her family is immediately influenced by them as well.

Dana Sender-Mulla

#BalanceForBetter: International Women’s Day In The Middle East

The Arab Women’s Organization of Jordan (AWO) held a conference on March 6 to shed light on issues relating to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Palestinian women celebrate outside Temple Mount in Jerusalem

IDF Manpower head: Not all combat positions suitable for women

A record breaking 1,000 women drafted into combat positions this summer

IDF Caracal soldier

Outrage as UAE gives all its 'gender balance' awards to men

"Sorry which genders are they balancing? We see only one," posted a twitter user after the ceremony.

Major Mariam al-Mansouri, the United Arab Emirates' first female pilot to fly an F-16 fighter jet.

Votes for women

“Rav Kook truly thought that total equality of the sexes was not only a halachic [Jewish law] problem, but even more so a historical, social, and moral mistake"-Rabbi Yoel Bin Nun

BRITISH SUFFRAGETTE Christabel Pankhurst takes part in a procession, 1911.

On women and their empowerment

Empowerment does not lead to aggression. Empowerment leads to assertiveness – the ability to speak your mind and to say “No!”

Women's empowerment

The women’s room

While you're waiting for a shampoo or discussing whose turn is next, there's this warm female feeling of belonging.

‘... WE EAVESDROP shamelessly on all the conversations around us about a grandson’s upcoming bar mitzvah or a daughter’s wedding.’

From survival to destiny

Sovereignty Movement founded by Women in Green motivates new generation to action.

YOUTH LEARN about the Knesset.

In Pictures: Women protesting violence against women across Israel

Tens of thousands of women and men are expected to gather at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Tuesday evening as the day-long demonstration reaches its climax.

Protest against violence against women in Jerusalem

The people’s chair

Presiding over World WIZO, a network of 800 projects serving hundreds of thousands of children, youth and women across Israel, chairperson Rivka Lazovsky is in the business of changing lives

RIVKA LAZOVSKY visits a WIZO day-care center on the first day of school