Women empowerment

Israel needs a mother

It’s time for women to take the wheel

Omer Steinmetz Haskel
Meira Lerner, Director of World Emunah, at the World Emunah Women in the Arts event

Where women are already leading

HONOREES AT Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards together with Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, Chochmat Nashim director (top row, 2nd L); and Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Foreign Ministry special envoy for innovation (bottom row, 1st R)

Israeli women honored at Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards

THE WRITER addresses a Maof-Tech gathering at the Technion in Haifa.

The strength of women in the capital market - opinion


Israel-Hamas War reveals double standard against victimized Israeli women

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Avi Mayer and Tamar Uriel-Beeri.

Building an Alternative (Bonot Alternativa) founder Moran Zer Katzenstein

Somalia's first all-women newsroom spotlights female taboos

Bilan has revolutionized the news agenda in Somalia, the director of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Arab States said.

Fleeing drought, Somalis still face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya

Israeli becomes first woman in Bedouin town to drive an ambulance

Lina Ezberga, an emergency medic who grew up in Kuseife, received her ambulance license after she started volunteering at MDA six years ago.

 Lina Ezberga, 23, became the first woman ever in her Bedouin town to become an ambulance driver.

Over 1 million women went missing in India from 2019 to 2021 - report

Causes cited in regard to the tremendous number of missing women were trafficking for forced marriage, domestic work, sexual exploitation, and child labor.

 People perform yoga in front of Taj Hotel, during International Yoga Day in Mumbai, India, June 21, 2023.

The Jewish people are a family, albeit a dysfunctional one - opinion

The MOMentum organization believes in focusing on Jewish unity, despite the things that seem to divide us.

 FROM LEFT: Deputy Finance Minister Michal Waldiger, Education Minister Yoav Kisch, MOMentum CEO Ben Pery, the writer, President Isaac Herzog, and Ophir and Bat-Galim Shaer pose at the Jerusalem Unity Prize ceremony at the President’s Residence last week.

Israeli art exhibit in Czech Republic denounces the plague of violence against women

 Michaela Marksova of Women for Women Czech

Jewish women's org. celebrates eight women who changed Israeli history

The campaign will be integrated into existing Momentum programs like the Momentum Fellowship and the Momentum Yearlong Journey. 

A young girl raises an Israeli flag.

Why do women have longer life expectancies than men in Israel?

The differences between the genders are getting smaller and smaller by the decade, but one fact still exists - women live longer than men. Is it biology, genetics, or maybe a matter of character?

Statistics favor the fairer sex

Making the voice of women survivors of domestic violence heard on the UN stage


Highest-ranking woman in Israel Police: Avoid self-pity

These many positions, especially for a male-led organization like the police, have forced Bar Zvi to face many a challenge.

 Sigal Bar Zvi, head of the Operations Division of the Israel Police