The Religious Services Ministry’s recognition of female Jewish law advisers last month marked a major milestone in bringing women into official religious leadership roles and paved the way for further…
AFP — A woman born in France to a Christian family was not an obvious candidate to become a trailblazing Orthodox rabbi in Israel, but 40-year-old former journalist Eliora Peretz…
For the first time in Israel’s history, a woman was nominated on Thursday to serve as a brigade commander in the Israel Defense Forces. Reut Rettig-Weiss was promoted to the…
Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Military correspondent…
More women than men wrote and published prose and poetry works in Hebrew, the National Library of Israel’s 2021 Annual Report showed, a first since the library began compiling statistics.…
The Israeli government will begin paying the salaries of female advisers on Jewish law, Deputy Minister Matan Kahana announced Thursday, marking a significant step toward gender equality by the Religious…
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on Wednesday denounced the barring of a female officer from leading a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall last week, calling it a “violation of…
In a last-minute change, a female military officer was barred Thursday from leading a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall. The Israel Defense Forces said the reversal followed a request…