Segregation

Secular school in Damascus announces full gender segregation, backlash ensues

The esteemed Al-Hurriya Institute in Damascus received backlash from Syrians after the former secular school announced plans to segregate students based on gender.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Women prepare for Eid al-Adha prayers at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, May 27, 2026.
Street sign reading women on one side and men on the other, in the ultra orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, July 15, 2026.

Municipality is not 'modesty patrol': Bnei Brak councilman slams sidewalk gender segregation

About a week ago, the Bnei Brak municipality announced an unusual measure to separate men and women on sidewalks in the area surrounding the city’s event halls.

|By103FM
Activists protest against a bill promoting gender-segregated academic study tracks, introduced by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026.

Haredi women, academics file petition against Israel's new gender-segregated education law

The petition was filed hours after the Knesset approved an amendment to the law which expressly allows the Council for Higher Education to approve separate programs for men and women.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Ladies in Bnei Brak watching as the men leave to protest outsidem of Military Prison 10 on June 24, 2026.

Bnei Brak set to become Israel's first city with gender-segregated streets, municipality announces

The municipality issued a statement in response to the report, saying that the decision came after a letter from the city's rabbis, while it also said that it could be further expanded in the future.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

New data maps Israel’s freedom divide: Liberal cities surge, conservative ones slip

The index measures municipal performance across 11 areas tied directly to daily life, including education oversight, gender-segregated events, religious budgets, and transparency.

DECEMBER 10, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN
Orthodox jews protest against Tel Aviv municipality Shabbat bus service, outside the home of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in Tel Aviv on December 7, 2019.

It’s not black vs white: SA chief rabbi responds to Trump refugee program - opinion

It is an old leftist trope that South Africa’s problems can be read across a stark racial divide – let alone be resolved by old leftist ideologies of state-directed economic strategies.

MAY 19, 2025ByWARREN GOLDSTEIN
Rabbi Warren Goldstein

Breaking barriers: a Jewish teen’s role in desegregation in 1950s Texas

A small Texas town took a stand against segregation through sports.

JANUARY 20, 2025ByBARUCH SCHMIDT
THE WRITER is photographed in the New Braunfels High School Unicorn 1950 Yearbook. Racial discrimination and the various sins that go with it are faded shadows of what they once were, says the writer.

Knesset advances controversial gender segregation bill for higher education

Opposition MKs criticized the proposed bill as being discriminatory and as legitimizing segregation in Israeli society. 

DECEMBER 4, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Limor Son Har-Melech and MK Gilad Kariv attend Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on August 7, 2024.

Yom Kippur prayers in Tel Aviv can take place with partitions to separate genders, High Court rules

Justices Mintz, Grosskopf, and Kasher issued the High Court ruling, which stated that the Tel Aviv municipality is authorized to make arrangements for the Yom Kippur prayer.

OCTOBER 9, 2024ByMAYA GUR ARIEH
Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023.

More Israelis support allowing public segregated prayer than not - poll

The polls also found that most Israelis think that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to New York went well.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays. September 25, 2023.

Fights break out over gender-segregated Yom Kippur prayers

The conflict broke out after some of those praying tried to set up partitions in the square to create gender segregation.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023.

Gender segregation in Bnei Brak is a good thing - opinion

Maybe you highly educated and discerning women could still learn a thing or two from the women of Bnei Brak, and from their approach to the institution of marriage.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023ByRIVKA RAVITZ
PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE in Bnei Brak against the discrimination and exclusion of women, last week. ‘Stop wasting time on Bnei Brak,’ says the writer. ‘Look for those places where women are objectified, belittled, and betrayed.’

Stop allowing Israeli buses to be unsafe for women - editorial

Public transit is a basic right and no one should feel unwelcome, uncomfortable, or unsafe boarding a bus in Israel. The ban on gender segregation and harassment must be enforced.

AUGUST 16, 2023ByJPOST EDITORIAL
A ceremony for the new parking lot for electric buses of the Dan company in Bnei Brak, February 19, 2023.

No pilot for gender-segregated swimming in nature reserves - A-G

The Israel Nature and Parks Authority doesn't have authorization to restrict access to sites based on gender, said the AG's office.

AUGUST 10, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
YEHUDIYA Nature Reserve.