Violence against women

Bat Melech reports spike in domestic violence hotline calls during wartime

Shelters for religious and haredi women at full capacity as organization says security emergencies are intensifying danger inside the home.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Woman in distress.
FOUR YOUNG women hostages before and after their capture.

Inside the 300-page report Hamas hoped no one would uncover

Almost three years after October 7, a new 300-page report lays out evidence of systematic sexual violence by Hamas.

|ByJERUSALEM POST PODCASTS, RUTH MARKS EGLASH
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.

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
Super-Pharm launches nationwide campaign to spotlight “invisible violence” in relationships.

Super-Pharm launches nationwide campaign to spotlight “invisible violence” in relationships

Chain says initiative will roll out in about 300 branches and online, offering tools to recognize emotional abuse and psychological manipulation.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Woman and two infant sons murdered in Taiba, husband arrested

The victim's husband, Mohammed Massaroa, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife and children.

MAY 1, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN, SHIRA SILKOFF
Israel Police on the scene of the murder of a woman and her two infant children in Taiba.

Women facing violence, forced marriage may get EU refugee status, top court adviser says

International protection as a refugee can be granted to persons who are exposed to risks of violence because they are members of a "particular social group"

APRIL 20, 2023ByREUTERS
Israelis light candles in memory of women murdered in domestic violence, at a set up memorial on Rothschild Boulevard, ahead of International Day of Violence Against Women. November 24, 2020.

'Dont Passover us': Four arrested as Israeli women's group begins graffiti campaign

This activity was designed to evoke the dramatic moment in the Passover story at the conclusion of the Ten Plagues, the death of the first-born.

APRIL 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
"Do not pass over us" is written in red by LOTEM anti-gender-violence activists.