violence against women

Israelis gather in Jerusalem's Independence Park in front of the U.S. Embassy to mourn those killed in Gaza and to call for a ceasefire and an end to the cycle of violence, December 22, 2023. (Aryeh Leib)

Women’s liberation mustn’t stop at either side of the Gaza fence

Feminist principles compel us to stand with both the Palestinian women being slaughtered in Gaza and the Israeli women testifying about sexual violence.

By Samah Salaime December 22, 2023

Activists from the Shovrot Kirot movement stand in front of the ruins of the Givat Amal neighborhood in north Tel Aviv, and the luxury apartment blocks built in its place, April 11, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

The Mizrahi feminists shaking up Israel’s human rights scene

A new movement is bringing a fresh model to the struggle for the rights of Israeli society’s most invisible and marginalized groups. Can it succeed?

By Ben Reiff April 12, 2022

A woman serves food to Palestinian children in Gaza City, Gaza on January 21, 2021. (Mohammed Zaanoun)

For Gaza’s most vulnerable, home is no safe place for COVID-19 recovery

With a fragile health system in the blockaded strip, infected Palestinians were sent to home quarantine — putting poor families, women, and children at risk.

By Fidaa Shurrab March 12, 2021

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Israelis protest gender-based violence following the killing of a 50-year-old woman by her husband, Bat Yam, May 4, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

The coronavirus crisis is a ‘pressure cooker’ for domestic violence

Directives to shelter at home may be flattening one curve, but they have led to a spike in domestic and gender-based violence, and the Israeli government is yet to offer timely solutions.

By Henriette Chacar May 4, 2020

Illustrative photo of Israeli police at a murder scene, October 10, 2018. (Flash90)

‘Israeli authorities treat gun violence in our community as an Arab problem’

Israeli police estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of illegal guns among Palestinian citizens of Israel, a community suffering from under-policing and high levels of violence. Are the guns the problem? And what can be done about it? The Palestinian community in Israel has been experiencing an ongoing wave of violence for some years…

By Rami Younis December 19, 2018

A protester takes part in a mass rally against government inaction toward gender violence, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Why I didn’t join the protests against gender violence in Israel

‘My identity as a woman is not detached from my identity as a Palestinian, so I can only rally behind a movement that calls to free women from all systems of oppression.’ By Maryam Hawari I first encountered Alice Miller v. Minister of Defense in my first year of law school. In 1994, Miller took…

By +972 Magazine December 5, 2018

Tens of thousands take part takes part in a mass rally against government inaction toward gender violence, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Tens of thousands of women hold mass protests against gender violence in Israel

Women across the country take part in a general strike to protest the government’s inaction over gender violence. Twenty-four women have been murdered since the beginning of the year. By +972 Magazine Staff Tens of thousands of women in Israel participated in a general strike across the country on Tuesday, declaring a “state of emergency” to protest the…

By +972 Magazine December 4, 2018

Feminist activists paint hundreds of pairs of shoes red to protest gender violence, Tel Aviv, December 4, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘Gender violence pushed Jewish, Palestinian women into a corner — together’

Women across Israel were set to strike to protest the government’s inaction toward gender violence. Samah Salaime, a prominent feminist activist, speaks about building solidarity between Jewish and Palestinian women and why this moment feels so urgent. Tens of thousands of women in Israel were expected to participate in a general strike and demonstrations across the country on Tuesday, protesting the government’s…

By Edo Konrad December 4, 2018

Justice minister Ayelet Shaked Gives a statement to the media Justice minister Ayelet Shaked gives a statement to the media at the Knesset on February 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Setting the struggle against gender-based violence back 30 years

A proposed bill to increase the sentences for Arab men who kill women ‘on the basis of family honor’ is not a step forward for feminism, but a step back. The Justice Ministry recently presented a bill to the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice committee that would define murder on the basis of “family honor”…

By Samah Salaime March 2, 2018

A theatric protest targeting violence against women following the murder of 41-year-old Maya Goren, Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017. (Flash90)

When it comes to gender terrorism, Israel’s brave leaders stay silent

Four women have been murdered since the beginning of the week, but if you look at our leaders’ Facebook pages, you’ll notice they are spending all their time attacking Palestinians and leftists. Fourteen women have been murdered in Israel since the beginning of 2017, four of them in the past week alone. Had the murderers been…

By Orly Noy June 15, 2017

Arab women protest gender violence outside the Ramle police station. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

What are Israelis willing to do to end violence against Arab women?

Another Arab woman was gunned down by a masked assailant. What are you, Arabs and Jews who respect the police and just want peace, planning to do about it? Another woman joins the list. This time it was Siham Azbarqa from Lod who was shot in her home on Monday and died from her wounds the following…

By Samah Salaime March 30, 2017

A protest marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Tel Aviv. (Activestills.org)

+972’s Person of the Year: The women standing up to sexual harassment

The women who spoke out in 2016 executed an unplanned pincer move. As accusations snowballed, women inspired one another to speak up. First and foremost, what 2016 should mean for Israel’s social institutions is that there are limits on power. Whether or not men acknowledge what they did as wrong, title or talent must not protect them.

By +972 Magazine December 30, 2016

Arab women protest gender violence outside the Ramle police station. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

As Arab women become statistics, their killers walk free

Sana al-Zana was murdered and buried in the desert late last year. The media didn’t report it, the police did little to nothing, and the killer is still walking free. I recently discovered that us Arab women are a skillful bunch: it turns out that in Israel of 2016, an Arab woman can put an…

By Samah Salaime November 21, 2016