Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked called yesterday in a letter to Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to stop Israel’s process of joining the Istanbul Convention, which is considered the highest standard of the international struggle against domestic violence. The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is based on four principles: prevention, treatment, prosecution and policy coordination. So far, more than 40 countries have joined the convention. Doing so will advance the required, lifesaving actions to prevent violence to women and child