Another Victory in the Fight against the Exclusion of Women

A public radio station, which forbade women’s voices on the air, was taken to task by two NIF grantees and the Jerusalem District Court.

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An End to Gender Segregation?

May 8th became a day of celebration for proponents of equality in Israel after Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein instructed the government to immediately stop the exclusion and segregation of women in the public sphere.

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New Israel Fund Sponsors Programs, Issues Grants as Women’s Issues Heat Up

As part of an international campaign to restore the sight and sound of women to the public sphere in Israel, the New Israel Fund (NIF) and its grantee Yisrael Chofshit (Free Israel) sponsored a rally for women’s rights in downtown Jerusalem yesterday evening.

New Israel Fund asks: “Send us your photo” — Women should be seen AND heard in Jerusalem

Washington, DC. In reaction to the increasing trend of gender segregation and exclusion of women from the public sphere in Jerusalem, this week the New Israel Fund launched a campaign asking Americans to send in photos to post in public places in that city. Recently, an NIF grantee called “Yerushalmim” (Jerusalemites) put up 150 posters of women around the city, after it became evident that advertisers there were no longer using women’s images in order to appease the city’s ultra-Orthodox population.