Empowering women

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

The letter deplored that women had never had a significant role in the ceremony at the Western Wall, other than lighting the ceremonial torch.

|ByTZVI JASPER
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.
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

Marking the new year, partners held a kickoff event on Thursday, with about 30 10th-grade students beginning another year of hands-on learning, mentoring, and exposure to scientific fields.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Israeli women places her vote in a ballot box (illustrative)

It is time for women to run the Israeli government - opinion

Men are really not capable of leading us right now. Let’s just give the reins of leadership over to the women. There are several potential candidates.

|BySHERWIN POMERANTZ
Aleeza Ben Shalom was interviewed at the Jerusalem Post's Women Leader Summit.

Aleeza Ben Shalom to 'Post': 'I made it impossible to ignore me'

In a world of swipe-right culture, Aleeza Ben Shalom brings something timeless: the belief that love, when pursued with intention and faith, can change everything.

|ByJOANIE MARGULIES

‘Women in key positions is the way to bring peace’ says Gamliel

Social Equality Minister Gamliel addresses counterparts from Arab countries.

NOVEMBER 27, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Gila Gamliel

Israeli minister discusses ‘solidarity in fighting terrorism’ in Cairo

“We need to act together to eradicate terrorism everywhere and anywhere.”

NOVEMBER 27, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Gila Gamliel

Three Ladies, Three Lattes: Me too

Three Ladies, Three Lattes looks at percolating issues in Israel’s complicated social and religious fabric. Secular Pam, modern Orthodox Tzippi and haredi Danit answer your questions.

NOVEMBER 8, 2017ByPAM PELED, DANIT SHEMESH, TZIPPI SHA-KED
A modern take on how to view women in the Bible

Saudi women riled by robot with no hijab and more rights than they have

"It hit a sore spot that a robot has citizenship and my daughter doesn't."

NOVEMBER 1, 2017ByREUTERS
A Saudi woman swings at a park in Jeddah

Mystic woman: Melanie Landau celebrates the divine and empowers others

She and her husband initially came to Israel 20 years ago to learn Torah together.

OCTOBER 26, 2017ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN
A woman’s circle at the Red Tent Retreat.

Jordan scraps 'marry your rapist' law

No girl should be "presented as a gift" to her rapist, says a Jordan Parliamentarian.

AUGUST 1, 2017ByTHOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Jordanian girls wave the flag of Jordan

Pakistani council orders 'revenge rape' of 16-year-old girl

The rape was ordered as revenge for the girl's brother's alleged sexual assault.

JULY 27, 2017ByREUTERS
Pakistani women work in a field outside the village of Multan in south Punjab province

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.

JULY 19, 2017BySHARON UDASIN
A woman walks near high-rise buildings in the hi-tech business area of Tel Aviv

Unemployment among women in Jordan increasing

Worrying Jordanian women are increasingly employed refugees, discrimination against women, and culturally-embedded gender inequality.

JULY 17, 2017ByLINDA GRADSTEIN/THE MEDIA LINE
Jordanian woman at the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development

Female officer takes command of IDF Artillery Corps' drone unit

Lt.Col. Reut Retig Weiss becomes second woman to ever be appointed commander of a combat unit

JULY 10, 2017ByANNA AHRONHEIM
An Israeli soldier launches a Skylark unmanned aerial vehicle near the border with Gaza Strip