Enforcement, rehabilitation, prevention and education are needed for Israel to truly claim its place among the ranks of progressive countries fighting to end prostitution and human trafficking
Judge sets precedent in awarding Chile Ezra legal residency after she was kidnapped in Hungary and brought to Israel for prostitution, but authorities might seek to overturn decision
Calls for help from Arab Israeli women suffering domestic violence surged during both lockdowns. A new service makes it possible to get help discreetly
Some of the weakest women in society give voice to their pain and power in this one of a kind initiative. 'The audience doesn’t know who’s homeless and who’s a volunteer'
More vulnerable than ever to the malice of those wishing to deport them, asylum seekers in Israel are anxiously following the raids and ethnic cleansing still taking place in Darfur
Anthropologist Daniel Monterescu examines the role of politics, economics, art and nightlife in the mixed city that is so much more than just Tel Aviv’s backyard
Sheikha Helawy hasn’t lived the traditional life of a feted writer, overcoming childhood hardships to become an award-winning poet who confronts the oppression of women in Bedouin society
Pendleton, presenting in Israel for the first time, tells Haaretz about the importance of the creator’s voice in a sea of political chatter
Chile Ezra, who was forcibly brought to Israel to work as a prostitute and was raped by a client, was in a relationship with an Israeli who died before she obtained legal status
Immigration authority director said he didn't find 'any special humanitarian reasons' to grant status to woman who was trafficked to Israel in 1991 and has an Israeli child
At 5, she knew she was a girl in a boy's body. At 7, she changed her name and came out to her classmates. Now Rina's parents are sharing their journey to understanding that their daughter is transgender. Along the way they've found that they are not alone
Recognizing lap dances in clubs as prostitution earlier on could have spared some of the society’s most marginalized women a lot of abuse
Ayman Kamel Agbaria, who has just published his poems in Hebrew, used to write about the Nakba. Then he met Emile Habibi
Some victims of torture and rape, these women are creating dolls to cater for demand in local kindergartens
By handing out light sentences, and not trying the main culprit in a case involving a notorious Tel Aviv brothel, the legal system and police fail to protect the vulnerable in the prostitution industry
The Kitchen Talks social enterprise offers workshops that showcase the cuisines of Israel’s transparent communities, the people behind them and their life stories
Womanhood and national identity politics are at the heart of the drawings of artist Samah Shihadi, now on display at her solo Tel Aviv Museum exhibition
Defying her rigid patriarchal upbringing, Hanan Abu-Hussein addresses oppression and violence against women in the Arab society
The lights went out on Tel Aviv Central Bus Station project – and some of the city's most vulnerable populations have been left even more alone
The media has been working hand-in-hand with police, describing demonstrators as violent and taking a perspective in line with Israel's racist establishment
Dalal Daoud was imprisoned for killing her husband Ali, whom she reported to police 26 times. In the 18 years she spent behind bars, not enough was done to save women