Vered Lee

Incitement over relationships between Jewish women and Arab men has been rising sharply in Israel in recent years. A new report examines the phenomenon and its real aims.

It’s more than a decade since ‘Alma’ gave up prostitution and drugs, but still acutely physical revulsion as she describes the severe violence and exploitation she experienced during a period of more than 17 years.

Seven children, Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan.

Five children, Kibbutz Ein Gedi.

Six children, Modi’in.

Five children, Jerusalem.

Lately it seems there are more secular, middle class Israeli families with five, six or seven children. Who are these parents, and how do they manage all those kids?

They fled their homeland only to face a new threat in Israel: domestic violence. Now some are fighting back, from a small center in Tel Aviv.

For more than a month Haaretz followed the collectors of scrap metal, empty bottles and other waste. Here are their stories.

For more than a month Haaretz followed the collectors of scrap metal, empty bottles and other waste. Here are their stories.

For more than a month Haaretz followed the collectors of scrap metal, empty bottles and other waste. Here are their stories.

For more than a month Haaretz followed the collectors of scrap metal, empty bottles and other waste. Here are their stories.

For more than a month Haaretz followed the collectors of scrap metal, empty bottles and other waste. Here are their stories.

For more than a month Haaretz followed the collectors of scrap metal, empty bottles and other waste. Here are their stories.

For more than a month Haaretz followed the collectors of scrap metal, empty bottles and other waste. Here are their stories.

How Hagigat - a cheap alternative to hard drugs once considered an innocuous party drug – became Israel's most addictive drug.

Ariela Giveon-Popper’s new book examines how Arab women healers blend tradition and modernity to aid and empower women in their communities.

It's just turned 10 A.M. and escort parlors, strip joints and discreet apartments have already opened their doors for business. Many of the women who work in them are mothers.

Attorney Yael Berda's new book looks inside the daily operations of the Palestinian permit system, where she says no one is in charge and everyone loses.

Israeli academic Uri Ben-Eliezer says Israel is fighting a new kind of war where conventional military superiority means less.

Too distraught over their uncertain fate to celebrate: "Who's in the mood?"

In her new book, Dr. Daphna Hacker analyzes the legal implications of the dramatically shifting institution of family.

Dozens in south Tel Aviv call for the deportation of African migrant workers; ‘the black presence is intimidating,” says victim.

Israel recalls the aliyah of 50,000 Yemenite Jews as a miracle, but a new book claims the mission was both a tragedy and a sham.

The 65-year-old doesn’t see herself as a ‘national poet,’ but loves the fact that readers get what she’s on about.

The 'expose' revealing that underage prostitutes come from low socioeconomic backgrounds is not surprising.

The pedestrian is the human heart of the city, and his movement is the strongest possible expression of the link between the environment and the community.

In the Israel of 2012, models, artists and other public figures who help raise funds for charities do not campaign for AIDS victims, as they do in other countries.

Women's organizations that come out against prostitution and the trafficking of women are forgetting that if they want to eradicate the crime of prostitution, they must demand a solution for the treatment and rehabilitation of male prostitutes as well.

The demand for equal treatment cannot be denied to women prisoners and victims, even if the custom in Israel is to accept the violation of prisoners' human rights with equanimity.

In other countries, demonstrations can have cohesion between the social organizations; in Israel, the social protests were sectarian.

As a woman of Middle Eastern origin, I feel uncomfortable when I read Merav Michaeli's call to choose Amir Peretz as head of the Labor Party, listing his Mizrahi origin as one of the reasons.

'Open Houses' campaign enables Israelis to see the human face of a community that wide swathes of the public, egged on by politicians, currently view as 'infiltrators.'

If the residents of south Tel Aviv had wanted to fight to improve the looks of their neighborhoods, they would have joined forces with the refugees for real social change.

Criminalizing the consumption of commercialized sex seems such an obvious step that it's not clear why it has not long been part of our law.