Grant from The Hadassah Foundation for Promoting Gender Equality in Israel
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant by the Hadassah Foundation, as part of its investment in gender equality in Israel. It is an honor to serve as a prominent organization promoting leadership advancement and the removal of religious and cultural barriers for girls and women in Israel, and we […]
Remembering Israel’s First Female Lawyer, 90 Years On – an article by Prof. Ruth Halperin Kaddari and Dr. Eyal Katvan
For eight years, Rosa Ginzberg had battled the authorities of British Mandatory Palestine for the right to sit for the bar examination and to practice law in pre-state Israel. On February 15, 1930 the High Court of Justice delivered its ruling – the justices chose realism over formalism, focusing on the issues of the status […]
One Hundred Years of Patriarchy – an article by Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and Einat Offer
Israeli women are the only ones in the western world who are subject to discriminatory laws and are the only social group who are barred from serving in certain civil service jobs.Whole communities in Israel discriminate against women and bar them from communal and political leadership. Read more.