Women education
Half of Afghan women rarely leave home as Taliban restrictions deepen, UN agency says
Afghanistan remains the only country in the world to ban girls from secondary education and women from attending university.
A small and insufficient victory: Female Torah scholars - opinion
Invest in women: Why gender equality matters for Israel’s future – opinion
Women’s entrepreneurship: Resilience and leadership in times of crisis - opinion
How does Tel Aviv's hi-tech industry rank in terms of gender equality?
For the first time, Tel Aviv ranked among the top 50 cities in the annual Dell Women Entrepreneurship Cities index, released on Monday.
Israeli parties from Right, Left team up to fight prostitution
Lawmakers from every party in the Knesset signed the bill, except for the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism.
Israel’s first woman Shari’a court judge a humble role model
‘Other religious courts may fear a precedent’
School's not out for summer - matriculation exam season begins
Some 220,000 students in the 11th and 12th grades are expected to take the matriculation exams across a wide variety of subjects.
Jewish and Arab female Jerusalemites express mixed feelings on Women’s Day
'Women are treated as if they are inferior, like they are children,’ says one woman
Danielle Foundation prize to award the ‘angels’ of medicine
Family calls on public to nominate deserving doctors.
Jews are world’s most educated religious group, study finds
American Jews have the highest rate of higher education, at 75 percent (compared to 40 percent of Americans generally), and have an average of 14.7 years of schooling.
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Assessment shows improvement in Israeli primary schools
Despite the advances, large gaps remain across socio-economic sectors and between Hebrew and Arabic-speaking pupils.
The smartest Palestinian teenager in all the land
Abdullah is a role model to her brother and fellow classmates. Since a very young age, she has independently organized her personal schedule and allocated a number of hours daily to study.
2014/15 academic year saw more doctorates, but fewer BAs and MAs
Arab students comprised 10% of those receiving undergraduate degrees.