Israeli Women

WIZO Battered Women’s Shelter celebrates 40th anniversary

WIZO and government officials, formerly sheltered women and children speak. 200,000 women and 500,000 child domestic violence victims annually.

 Workers in the daycare educational system   protest in Tel Aviv, demanding better working conditions. October 3, 2021

Miriam Cabessa - One of Israel's most influential artists

 MIRIAM CABESA’S ‘Vital Signs’ is on display at the Haifa Museum of Art

In first, Israeli 'Iron Women' flight takes off to London

 : An Israel El Al airlines plane is seen after its landing following its inaugural flight between Tel Aviv and Nice at Nice international airport, France, April 4, 2019.

15 women blaze trail in Halacha education

 Standing and on the floor are the women who took the exam. In the middle row, heads of Ohr Torah Stone and Matan Sharon

IDF appoints first woman to command a brigade

Col. Reut Rettig-Weiss will command the 99th Division's Artillery Brigade.

 Col. Reut Rettig-Weiss was promoted to serve as brigade commander in the 99th Division's Artillery Brigade, the first woman in IDF history to fill such a role.

For the first time, female Israeli authors outpaced males in publishing in 2021

Just over half of books published, 52%, were credited to female authors, giving them a majority for the first time since the library began collecting statistics.

 Lihi Lapid, wife of opposition leader and Chairman of Israel's Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid, attends the funeral of Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan at the Habima Theatre in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, May 31, 2021.

The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders

Jessie Sampter “spoke of herself as ‘crippled’ from...polio.” In addition, “she wrote of homoerotic longings and had same-sex relationships we would consider queer."

 One of Jessie Sampter's quotes, taken from one of her poems and popularized in a book of quotations by women, appears on a sign in Ladakh, India.

Celebrity memorabilia sale's proceeds donated to women's shelters

In a joint initiative by WIZO, eBay and Gett Delivery, celebrities are auctioning off personal memorabilia in order to raise funds for women's shelters.

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli

First woman to command an IAF flight school squadron

The first woman squadron commander in the IAF's prestigious Flight School entered her new role on Wednesday, marking yet another broken glass ceiling for women pilots.

 Major Y' prepares to take off with a pilot from her squadron, the 106th Squadron.

Four women among IDF Flight Academy's 182nd graduating class

Thursday's graduation ceremony will mark 40 years since the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor

The 182nd Israeli Air Force Flight Academy's class' four women graduates

Int'l Women's Day: Philanthropic Wonder Women

At Jewish National Fund-USA (JNF-USA), our organization is powered by “wonder women.” They are our sisters, mothers, aunts, and bubbes and they are changing the world.

Kim Kotzin

Shadow pandemic: 6 steps to eliminate domestic violence - analysis

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, what steps can be taken to reduce the pain?

Sister of Michal Sela speaks at the Knesset committee's discussion on the rise of domestic violence during the coronavirus outbreak, June 22, 2020

Twitter explodes over casting of 'white, Israeli' Gal Gadot as Cleopatra

In the process, the Twitterverse got a history lesson, as many learned that the famous queen was Greek.

Gal Gadot at the Met Gala, May 6, 2019

Jenny Slate to leave ‘Big Mouth’ because her character is half Black

“Big Mouth” is an animated comedy based on Kroll and Goldberg’s upbringing that is full of Jewish humor. It’s so popular that last year Netflix gave it a green light for three future seasons.

25th Critics Choice Awards – Arrivals – Santa Monica, California, US, January 12, 2020 - Jenny Slate